Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill, sentence 73

"Yet, for all that, it is a very strange affair," said the kitchen-cat.

Who acts: matter, strange affair · What happens: be, say · To what, where: strange affair, kitchen cat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (matter, strange affair), 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	_	2 Yet	punct
2	Yet	yet	ADV	_	13 affair	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yet	punct
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 that	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 that	det
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 Yet	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yet	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 affair	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 affair	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 affair	det
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 strange	advmod
12	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 affair	amod
13	affair	affair	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 affair	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 affair	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 cat	det
18	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cat	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 kitchen	punct
20	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	matter	a strange affair			yet		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	a strange affair	the kitchen cat					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cat=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.

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