The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 40

It is true you didn’t succeed in catching the bird; but don’t let that discourage you, for this time you will be all the more careful, and will doubtless catch the horse.’

Who acts: friend, you, that · What happens: be, not succeed, catch, not let, discourage · To what, where: bird, that, you, horse

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Mermaid. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend, you, that), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 succeed	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 succeed	aux
6	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 succeed	advmod
7	succeed	succeed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 true	parataxis
8	in	in	SCONJ	_	9 catching	mark
9	catching	catch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 succeed	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bird	det
11	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 catching	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 let	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 let	cc
14	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 let	aux
15	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 let	advmod
16	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 true	parataxis
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 let	obj
18	discourage	discourage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 let	xcomp
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 discourage	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 careful	punct
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 time	case
22	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 time	det
23	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 careful	obl
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 careful	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 careful	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 careful	cop
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 careful	det:predet
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 careful	det
29	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	30 careful	advmod
30	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 discourage	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 doubtless	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 doubtless	cc
33	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 doubtless	aux
34	doubtless	doubtless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 true	conj
35	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 doubtless	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 horse	det
37	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 catch	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	friend			true property	tree rules
2	not succeed	past · do-support	you				vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	catch	gerund	you not said here	the bird			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme
4	not let	infinitive · do-support		that			tree rules
5	discourage	infinitive	that not said here	you			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer
6	is	future	you		time	careful property	tree rules
7	be	future	friend not said here				tree rules
8	catch	infinitive	friend not said here	the horse			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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