The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 51

Go, young man, follow your dream, and if you do not find the happiness that you seek, at any rate you will have had the happiness of seeking it.’

Who acts: you, happiness, your · What happens: go, follow, not find, seek, have, dream · To what, where: dream, happiness, rate · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, happiness, your), 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	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 man	punct
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Go	vocative
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 follow	punct
6	follow	follow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	parataxis
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 dream	nmod:poss
8	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 follow	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 find	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 find	cc
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 find	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 find	nsubj
13	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 find	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 find	advmod
15	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 follow	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 happiness	det
17	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 find	obj
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 seek	obj
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 seek	nsubj
20	seek	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 happiness	acl:relcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 had	punct
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 rate	case
23	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	24 rate	det
24	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 had	obl
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 had	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 had	aux
27	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 had	aux
28	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 find	ccomp
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 happiness	det
30	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 had	obj
31	of	of	SCONJ	_	32 seeking	mark
32	seeking	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 happiness	acl
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 seeking	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Go	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here			young man vocative	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	follow	infinitive		your dream			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Theme
3	not find a condition, not said to happen	present · do-support	you	the happiness			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent happiness=Attribute clause=Theme
4	seek	present	you	the happiness			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme
5	have	future · perfect	you	the happiness	any rate		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent happiness=Patient
6	seek	gerund	the happiness not said here	happiness			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
7	dream		your				nom dream «cognition 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: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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