Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 76

What question of debt can there be between us?

Who acts: question · What happens: be, question · To what, where: debt

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (question), 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	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 question	det
2	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 there	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 debt	case
4	debt	debt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 question	nmod
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 there	aux
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 there	cop
8	between	between	ADP	_	9 us	case
9	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 be	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 there	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	can	what question of debt					there property	tree rules
2	question			debt					nom question «communication transitive»: of=patient

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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