Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 63
Without thy loving help, and that of my son Cadmus, my limbs could not have borne me half so far as this.
Who acts: thy · What happens: not bear, help · To what, where: limbs
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thy), 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 | Without | without | ADP | _ | 4 help | case |
| 2 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 help | nmod:poss |
| 3 | loving | loving | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 help | amod |
| 4 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 borne | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 that | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 that | cc |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 help | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 son | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 son | nmod:poss |
| 10 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 that | nmod |
| 11 | Cadmus | Cadmus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 son | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 help | punct |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 limbs | nmod:poss |
| 14 | limbs | limb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 borne | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 borne | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 borne | advmod |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 borne | aux |
| 18 | borne | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 borne | obj |
| 20 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 18 borne | advmod |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 far | advmod |
| 22 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 borne | advmod |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 this | case |
| 24 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 far | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 borne | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bear | could · perfect · passive | my limbs | without thy loving help that; far, half property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary i=Patient | ||||
| 2 | help | thy | nom help «act 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: «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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