Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 33

Then her husband was alarmed, and asked: ‘What ails you, dear wife?’

What happens: alarm, ask, ail · To what, where: husband, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 alarmed	advmod
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 husband	nmod:poss
3	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 alarmed	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 alarmed	aux:pass
5	alarmed	alarm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 asked	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 alarmed	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 asked	cc
8	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 ails	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 ails	punct
11	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 ails	nsubj
12	ails	ail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 asked	ccomp
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 ails	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wife	punct
15	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 wife	amod
16	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ails	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 wife	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 ails	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	alarm	past · passive	woman's husband	then		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	ask speech: ask	past				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	ail	present	you		dear wife obl	vn pain-40.8.1 «NP V NP.experiencer»: agent=Patient you=Experiencer

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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