Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 121

“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 · What happens: be, begin, beg, let · To what, where: locus docendi, clerical gentleman, profit, us · Speech: someone speaks here

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.

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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 docendi	punct
2	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 docendi	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 docendi	cop
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 docendi	det
5	locus	locus	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 docendi	compound
6	docendi	docendi	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 began	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 true	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 true	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 true	cop
10	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 docendi	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 docendi	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 docendi	punct
13	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 gentleman	det
15	clerical	clerical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 gentleman	amod
16	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 began	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 began	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 beg	punct
19	yet	yet	ADV	_	21 beg	advmod
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 beg	nsubj
21	beg	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 began	parataxis
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 earnestly	nsubj
23	earnestly	earnestly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 beg	ccomp
24	to	to	PART	_	25 let	mark
25	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 earnestly	xcomp
26	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 let	obj
27	profit	profit	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 let	obj
28	by	by	ADP	_	30 learning	case
29	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 learning	nmod:poss
30	learning	learning	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 let	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	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

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: «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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