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title: Here was the meeting-place of the most interesting personages, whom… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Here was the meeting-place of the most interesting personages, whom one now only gets to see in the theatres where they act melodrama, up above. Who acts: meeting place, Robbers. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, with its dependency tree and
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 46

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Here was the meeting-place of the most interesting personages, whom one now only gets to see in the theatres where they act melodrama, up above.

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**Who acts:** meeting place, Robbers · **What happens:** be, get, see, act · **To what, where:** meeting place, theatres, melodrama

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (meeting place, Robbers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg27200:26:46
# text = Here was the meeting-place of the most interesting personages, whom one now only gets to see in the theatres where they act melodrama, up above.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	10	advmod	_	_
10	interesting	interesting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	personages	personage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	flat	_	_
15	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
16	only	only	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	theatres	theatre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	25	advmod	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	act	act	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	melodrama	melodrama	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	up	up	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	above	above	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the meeting place |  | here |  | of the interesting personages | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | present | the meeting place |  |  |  | now | above *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive | the meeting place *not said here* |  |  | the theatres |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **act** | present | Robbers *= robber* | melodrama |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent melodrama=Eventuality |

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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.

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**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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