Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 14

All the branches were loaded with flowers, each flower as beautiful and as fragrant as a rose; and, had any one tasted them, he would have found them sweeter even than jam.

Who acts: one, Hjalmar · What happens: load, have, taste, find · To what, where: branches

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, Hjalmar), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 branches	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 branches	det
3	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 loaded	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 loaded	aux:pass
5	loaded	load	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 flowers	case
7	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 loaded	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 flower	punct
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 flower	det
10	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flowers	conj
11	as	as	ADP	_	12 beautiful	case
12	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 flower	amod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 fragrant	cc
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 fragrant	advmod
15	fragrant	fragrant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 beautiful	conj
16	as	as	ADP	_	18 rose	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 rose	det
18	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fragrant	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 had	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 had	cc
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 and	punct
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 loaded	conj
23	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	24 one	det
24	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tasted	nsubj
25	tasted	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 had	ccomp
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 tasted	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 found	punct
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 found	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 found	aux
30	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 found	aux
31	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 loaded	parataxis
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 found	obj
33	sweeter	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 found	xcomp
34	even	even	ADV	_	36 jam	advmod
35	than	than	ADP	_	36 jam	case
36	jam	jam	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 found	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 loaded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	load	past · passive		all branches	with flowers and each flower	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with flower=Theme
2	have	past				tree rules
3	taste	past	any one	branches = branch		vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme they=Attribute
4	find	would · perfect	Hjalmar	branches = branch	than jam; sweet property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic

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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