Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 81
"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 · What happens: not be, begin, beg, continue · To what, where: locus docendi, man, you, conversation · Speech: someone speaks here
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.
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 | _ | 8 docendi | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 docendi | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 docendi | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 docendi | advmod |
| 5 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 8 docendi | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 docendi | det |
| 7 | locus | locus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 docendi | compound |
| 8 | docendi | docendi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 began | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 docendi | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 began | punct |
| 11 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 began | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 beg | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 beg | punct |
| 16 | still | still | ADV | _ | 19 beg | advmod |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 beg | nsubj |
| 18 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 beg | aux |
| 19 | beg | beg | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 began | parataxis |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 beg | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 continue | mark |
| 22 | continue | continue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 beg | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 conversation | det |
| 24 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 continue | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | 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 |
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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