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title: To one so light of heart the load also seemed light, and his thought… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: To one so light of heart the load also seemed light, and his thoughts were merry as he strode along. Who acts: load, thoughts. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"\], sentence 186

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To one so light of heart the load also seemed light, and his thoughts were merry as he strode along.

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**Who acts:** load, thoughts · **What happens:** seem, be, stride, light, think · **To what, where:** heart

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg29021:14:186
# text = To one so light of heart the load also seemed light, and his thoughts were merry as he strode along.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	load	load	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	also	also	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	light	light	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	parataxis	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	strode	stride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
21	along	along	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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.

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**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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