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title: So light of foot was this fair damsel, that she could step from one… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 3, with its dependency 
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 6

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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.

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

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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.

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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:pg976:27:6
# text = 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.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
7	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	damsel	damsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	step	step	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
16	foamy	foamy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	crest	crest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	wave	wave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	foamy	foamy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	crest	crest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
29	wetting	wet	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
30	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	obj	_	_
31	than	than	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	sole	sole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	sandal	sandal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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:** «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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