The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 186
To one so light of heart the load also seemed light, and his thoughts were merry as he strode along.
Who acts: load, thoughts · What happens: seem, be, stride, light, think · To what, where: heart
This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (load, thoughts), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 4 light | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 light | nummod |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 light | advmod |
| 4 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seemed | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 heart | case |
| 6 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 light | nmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 load | det |
| 8 | load | load | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seemed | nsubj |
| 9 | also | also | ADV | _ | 10 seemed | advmod |
| 10 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 seemed | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 merry | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 merry | cc |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 15 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 merry | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 merry | cop |
| 17 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 seemed | parataxis |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 strode | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 strode | nsubj |
| 20 | strode | stride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 merry | advcl |
| 21 | along | along | ADV | _ | 20 strode | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | the load | to one light of heart; light property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | load's thoughts | merry property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stride | past | load | along property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | light | heart | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | think | load | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=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: «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (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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