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title: “This is no locus docendi, it is true,” began the clerical gentleman… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “This is no locus docendi, it is true,” began the clerical gentleman; “yet I beg you earnestly to let us profit by your learning. Who acts: This, docendi, locus docendi, Bachelor. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, with its dependency tree and the
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 121

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“This is no locus docendi, it is true,” began the clerical gentleman; “yet I beg you earnestly to let us profit by your learning.

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**Who acts:** This, docendi, locus docendi, Bachelor · **What happens:** be, begin, beg, let · **To what, where:** locus docendi, clerical gentleman, profit, us · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, docendi, locus docendi, Bachelor), 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:pg1597:5:121
# text = “This is no locus docendi, it is true,” began the clerical gentleman; “yet I beg you earnestly to let us profit by your learning.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
5	locus	locus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	docendi	docendi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
13	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	clerical	clerical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	beg	beg	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	earnestly	earnestly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	ccomp	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	profit	profit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	learning	learning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | This | no locus docendi |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | docendi |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **begin** | past | no locus docendi | the clerical gentleman |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **beg** *speech: request* *in a quote* | present | a Bachelor *= bachelor* |  |  |  | yet |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **let** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | a Bachelor *= bachelor* *not said here* | profit | us |  |  | by your learning | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient profit=Theme |

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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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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