Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 46

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

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.

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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 place	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 place	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 place	det
4	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 place	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 meeting	punct
6	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gets	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 personages	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 personages	det
9	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	10 interesting	advmod
10	interesting	interesting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 personages	amod
11	personages	personage	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 place	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 whom	punct
13	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 personages	acl:relcl
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 whom	flat
15	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 gets	advmod
16	only	only	ADV	_	17 gets	advmod
17	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	to	to	PART	_	19 see	mark
19	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 gets	xcomp
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 theatres	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 theatres	det
22	theatres	theatre	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 see	obl
23	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	25 act	advmod
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 act	nsubj
25	act	act	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 theatres	acl:relcl
26	melodrama	melodrama	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 act	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 above	punct
28	up	up	ADV	_	29 above	advmod
29	above	above	ADV	_	17 gets	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 gets	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, 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

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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