Frame Report

The Addressee is most frequently the NP Object of a target verb. However, with the verb inquire, Addressee can only occur as an of-PP and with a noun target, Addressee occurs in a PP Complement or as a possessive :
Pat questioned me about where I had been.
"Do you often come here?" Kim inquired of the person sitting next to her.
My question to you is straightforward.
Kim's interrogation by the police was long.

The Message, or content of the question, usually takes the form of a direct quote or an embedded question with a verb target:
"What are you doing?" Kim inquired.
Kim inquired what I was doing.
With noun targets, Message is not common (as Topic occurs more frequently). However, Message does occur in a PP Complement with the noun question:
The answer to your question of how the company makes money is simply that it doesn't.

The person asking a question generally occurs as the External Argument of verb and noun targets:
Pat quizzed me about where I had been.
Pat's question surprised me.

Topic occurs very frequently in this frame with both noun and verb targets. It generally occurs as a PP Complement:
Pat inquired about train times.
Pat's inquiry about train times fell on deaf ears.

Manner of performing the request.

I slowly asked the question again|Iteration.

Medium is the physical entity or channel used by the Speaker to transmit the question:
Kim questioned me over the phone.

The time at which the questioning occurs.

I inquired yesterday.

The body movement may be prompted by either some outside phenomenon or occurrence, or by an Internal Cause, the Agent's mental or emotional state. Internal Cause is expressed in a PP Complement:
Kim asked me several questions in frustration.

The frame element Iterations is used for expressions that indicate the number of times an event or state (of the kind denoted by the target in its clause) has taken place or held.

I asked twice.