---
title: Without thy loving help, and that of my son Cadmus, my limbs could n… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/11/63/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Tanglewood Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/) / [The Dragon's Teeth., part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/11/) / 63

# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 63

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Without thy loving help, and that of my son Cadmus, my limbs could not have borne me half so far as this.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** thy · **What happens:** not bear, help · **To what, where:** limbs

<!-- .vabout -->
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.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg976:11:63
# text = Without thy loving help, and that of my son Cadmus, my limbs could not have borne me half so far as this.
1	Without	without	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	loving	loving	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	limbs	limb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux	_	_
18	borne	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	half	half	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	18	advmod	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | 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 |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/11/62/)
- next →: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/11/64/)
- ↑ back to [The Dragon's Teeth., part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/11/)