Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 6

So light of foot was this fair damsel, that she could step from one foamy crest of a wave to the foamy crest of another, without wetting more than the sole of her sandal.

Who acts: light, grove · What happens: be, step, wet, light · To what, where: fair damsel, one foamy crest, more, foot

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (light, grove), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 light	advmod
2	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 damsel	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 foot	case
4	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 light	nmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 damsel	cop
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 damsel	det
7	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 damsel	amod
8	damsel	damsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 step	punct
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 step	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 step	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 step	aux
13	step	step	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 damsel	parataxis
14	from	from	ADP	_	17 crest	case
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 crest	nummod
16	foamy	foamy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 crest	amod
17	crest	crest	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 step	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 wave	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 wave	det
20	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 crest	nmod
21	to	to	ADP	_	24 crest	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 crest	det
23	foamy	foamy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 crest	amod
24	crest	crest	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 step	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 another	case
26	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	24 crest	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 wetting	punct
28	without	without	SCONJ	_	29 wetting	mark
29	wetting	wet	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 step	advcl
30	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 wetting	obj
31	than	than	ADP	_	33 sole	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 sole	det
33	sole	sole	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 more	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 sandal	case
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 sandal	nmod:poss
36	sandal	sandal	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sole	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 damsel	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	light of foot	this fair damsel			tree rules
2	step	could	grove		one foamy crest of a wave	to the foamy crest of another	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to crest=Destination
3	wet	gerund	grove not said here	more			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent more=Patient
4	light			foot			nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (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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