The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 40

There is an old proverb which says: 'Everything comes to him who knows how to wait.'

Who acts: old proverb, Everything · What happens: be, say, come, know, wait · To what, where: Gilguerillo · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old proverb, Everything), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 proverb	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 proverb	amod
5	proverb	proverb	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 says	nsubj
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 proverb	acl:relcl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 comes	punct
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 comes	punct
10	Everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	11 comes	nsubj
11	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 says	ccomp
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 comes	obl
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 knows	nsubj
15	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 comes	conj
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 wait	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 wait	mark
18	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 knows	ccomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	roles by
1	be	present	a old proverb		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present	a old proverb			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	come	present	Everything	Gilguerillo		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
4	know	present				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	wait	to-infinitive				vn exist-47.1 «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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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