diff --git a/scripts/stanza-txt-annotator.py b/scripts/stanza-txt-annotator.py
index c028f95f6ef8289f83c136e461cd3902919d2a7e..93e2d7837d647d1301dae8bb1dbd1f9efccfee61 100755
--- a/scripts/stanza-txt-annotator.py
+++ b/scripts/stanza-txt-annotator.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import os.path
 import stanza
 from stanza.utils.conll import CoNLL
 import sys
+from tqdm import tqdm
 
 def oneLine(sentence):
     return sentence.text.replace('\n', ' ').replace('\t', ' ')
@@ -27,7 +28,7 @@ class Annotator:
     def annotate_dir(self, directory):
         source_path = f'{self.source}/{directory}'
         os.makedirs(f'{self.target}/{directory}', exist_ok=True)
-        for name in os.listdir(source_path):
+        for name in tqdm(os.listdir(source_path)):
             path = f'{source_path}/{name}'
             relpath = f'{directory}/{name}'
             if os.path.isdir(path):
@@ -40,13 +41,13 @@ class Annotator:
         if not os.path.isfile(outputFile):
             with open(f'{self.source}/{file}', 'r') as source:
                 document = source.read()
-                print("trying " + outputFile)
                 try:
                     with open(outputFile, 'w') as target:
                         for paragraph in document.split('\n\n'):
     #                        print(f'# newpar id = {self.newpar()}', file=target)
                             self.annotate_paragraph(paragraph, target)
                 except Exception:
+                    print("Failed trying " + outputFile)
                     os.unlink(outputFile)
                     sys.exit(1)