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title: "This is not certainly a locus docendi," began the man; "still I mus… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "This is not certainly a locus docendi," began the man; "still I must beg you to continue the conversation. Who acts: This, locus docendi, Bachelor. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 81

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"This is not certainly a locus docendi," began the man; "still I must beg you to continue the conversation.

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**Who acts:** This, locus docendi, Bachelor · **What happens:** not be, begin, beg, continue · **To what, where:** locus docendi, man, you, conversation · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, 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:pg27200:41:81
# text = "This is not certainly a locus docendi," began the man; "still I must beg you to continue the conversation.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
5	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	locus	locus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	docendi	docendi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
11	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	still	still	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	beg	beg	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	continue	continue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	conversation	conversation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | This | a locus docendi |  |  |  | certainly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **begin** | past | a locus docendi | the man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **beg** *speech: request* *in a quote* | must | a Bachelor *= bachelor* |  | you |  | still |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 4 | **continue** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | a Bachelor *= bachelor* *not said here* | the conversation |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent conversation=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:** «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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