The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 129

Then the youth bethought him that he who does not use his luck when he has it is a fool, and that this was a chance which once lost might never return.

Who acts: youth, finger, luck, this · What happens: bethink, not use, have, be, lose, not return · To what, where: finger, luck, fool, chance

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, finger, luck, this), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 bethought	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 youth	det
3	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bethought	nsubj
4	bethought	bethink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bethought	obj
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 use	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 use	nsubj
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 use	nsubj
9	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 use	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 use	advmod
11	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 bethought	advcl
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 luck	nmod:poss
13	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 use	obj
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 has	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 has	nsubj
16	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 use	advcl
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 fool	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 fool	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 fool	det
20	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 has	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 return	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 return	cc
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 return	mark
24	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 chance	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 chance	cop
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 chance	det
27	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 return	parataxis
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 lost	obj
29	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	30 lost	advmod
30	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 chance	acl:relcl
31	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 return	aux
32	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	33 return	advmod
33	return	return	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 bethought	parataxis
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bethought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	bethink	past	the youth	finger	then		tree rules
2	not use	present · do-support	finger	finger's luck			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Patient
3	have	present	finger				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present	luck	a fool			tree rules
5	is a	past	this	a chance			tree rules
6	lose	past		a chance		once property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality
7	not return	might					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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