--- title: Yes, it is a romance, a very wonderful romance, and we all have our… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Yes, it is a romance, a very wonderful romance, and we all have our place in it. Who acts: period, we. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, First Visit, 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/pg27200/136/12/) [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/) / [First Visit](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/136/) / 12 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:136:12 # text = Yes, it is a romance, a very wonderful romance, and we all have our place in it. 1 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 romance romance NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 9 very very ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 wonderful wonderful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 romance romance NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 16 advmod _ _ 16 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 17 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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. - ← previous: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/136/11/) - next →: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/136/13/) - ↑ back to [First Visit](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/136/)