Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 125

He had a very good situation in an office at Copenhagen, and as she had also taken a liking for him, his parents were not unwilling to consent.

Who acts: boatman, Christina, parents · What happens: have, take, not unwill, consent · To what, where: good situation, office, liking

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boatman, Christina, parents), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 situation	det
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 good	advmod
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 situation	amod
6	situation	situation	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 office	case
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 office	det
9	office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 Copenhagen	case
11	Copenhagen	Copenhagen	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 office	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 taken	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 taken	cc
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 taken	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 taken	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 taken	aux
17	also	also	ADV	_	18 taken	advmod
18	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 had	parataxis
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 liking	det
20	liking	liking	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 taken	obj
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 taken	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 unwilling	punct
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 parents	nmod:poss
25	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 unwilling	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 unwilling	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 unwilling	advmod
28	unwilling	unwill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 taken	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 consent	mark
30	consent	consent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 unwilling	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	boatman	a good situation	a office at Copenhagen		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent situation=Patient
2	take	past · perfect	Christina	a liking		for boatman	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent liking=Theme for he=Beneficiary
3	not unwill	past · progressive	boatman's parents				tree rules
4	consent	to-infinitive	boatman's parents not said here				vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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