--- title: "Can you never get beyond asking about that?" retorted the woman. — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "Can you never get beyond asking about that?" retorted the woman. Who acts: you, woman. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/211/115/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Sa…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/211/) / 115 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 115 "Can you never get beyond asking about that?" retorted the woman. **Who acts:** you, woman · **What happens:** not get, ask, retort · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, woman), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:211:115 # text = "Can you never get beyond asking about that?" retorted the woman. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 ccomp _ _ 6 beyond beyond ADP IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 asking ask VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 8 about about ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 12 retorted retort VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **get** *in a quote* | can | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | | about that | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.topic whether S»: agent=Agent about that=Topic | | 3 | **retort** *speech: other* | past | the woman | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/211/114/) - next →: [sentence 116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/211/116/) - ↑ back to [The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/211/)