Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 130

"And what has become of the little elder-tree mother?" asked the boy.

Who acts: boy · What happens: become, ask · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 become	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 become	cc
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 become	nsubj
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 become	aux
5	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	12 mother	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mother	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 mother	amod
9	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mother	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 elder	punct
11	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mother	compound
12	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 asked	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 mother	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 mother	punct
15	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 become	parataxis
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 boy	det
17	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 asked	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 become	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become in a quote	present · perfect							tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	past	the boy					of the little elder tree mother	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of mother=Recipient

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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