The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 72

For the second time I have shown you the path to follow; try to learn wisdom, and take the bull by the horns, lest your luck should slip from you!

Who acts: I, you, luck · What happens: show, follow, try, learn, take, slip · To what, where: path, you, wisdom, bull

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, luck), 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	For	for	ADP	_	4 time	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 time	det
3	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 try	obl
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 shown	nsubj
6	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 shown	aux
7	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 time	acl:relcl
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 shown	obj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 path	det
10	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shown	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 follow	mark
12	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 path	acl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 time	punct
14	try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	to	to	PART	_	16 learn	mark
16	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 try	xcomp
17	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 learn	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 take	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 take	cc
20	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 try	parataxis
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 bull	det
22	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 take	obj
23	by	by	ADP	_	25 horns	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 horns	det
25	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 take	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 slip	punct
27	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	31 slip	mark
28	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 luck	nmod:poss
29	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 slip	nsubj
30	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 slip	aux
31	slip	slip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 take	conj
32	from	from	ADP	_	33 you	case
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 slip	obl
34	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 try	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	show	present · perfect	I	the path	you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient path=Topic
2	follow	to-infinitive	I not said here	the path not said here				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	try	imperative	you not said here			time		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	learn not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	wisdom				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wisdom=Topic
5	take	infinitive			the bull		by the horns	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument bull=Destination
6	slip	should	your luck				from you	vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from you=Co-Patient

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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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