Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 47

I would gladly help you if I could; but I doubt whether I am strong enough to carry you across."

Who acts: I · What happens: help, doubt, be, carry · To what, where: you

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 help	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 help	aux
3	gladly	gladly	ADV	_	4 help	advmod
4	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 help	obj
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 could	mark
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 could	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 help	advcl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 doubt	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 doubt	cc
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 doubt	nsubj
12	doubt	doubt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 help	conj
13	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	16 strong	mark
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 strong	nsubj
15	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 strong	cop
16	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 doubt	ccomp
17	enough	enough	ADV	_	16 strong	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 carry	mark
19	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 strong	advcl
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 carry	obj
21	across	across	ADV	_	19 carry	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 help	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 help	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	help	would	I		you	gladly property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary
2	doubt	present	I				vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	I			enough, strong property	tree rules
4	carry	to-infinitive	I not said here	you		across property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

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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