Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, First Visit, sentence 12
Yes, it is a romance, a very wonderful romance, and we all have our place in it.
Who acts: period, we · What happens: be, have · To what, where: romance, place, period
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, First Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (period, we), 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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 romance | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 romance | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 romance | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 romance | det |
| 6 | romance | romance | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 romance | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 romance | det |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 wonderful | advmod |
| 10 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 romance | amod |
| 11 | romance | romance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 romance | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 have | cc |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 have | nsubj |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 have | advmod |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 romance | parataxis |
| 17 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 place | nmod:poss |
| 18 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 have | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 have | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 romance | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | period | a romance and a wonderful romance | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | we | our place | period | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=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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