The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 41

It is not all men who know hot to wait, any more than it is all men who can learn by experience; but Gilguerillo was one of the few and instead of thinking his life wasted because he could not have the thing he wanted most, he tried to busy himself in other directions.

Who acts: river, men, Gilguerillo · What happens: not be, know, wait, be, learn, think · To what, where: men, one, life, thing

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 (river, men, Gilguerillo), 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	5 men	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 men	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 men	advmod
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 men	det
5	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 wasted	nsubj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 know	nsubj
7	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 men	acl:relcl
8	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 know	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 wait	mark
10	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 hot	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 know	punct
12	any	any	ADV	_	13 more	advmod
13	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 know	advmod
14	than	than	ADP	_	18 men	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 men	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 men	cop
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 men	det
18	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 more	obl
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 learn	nsubj
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 learn	aux
21	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 men	acl:relcl
22	by	by	ADP	_	23 experience	case
23	experience	experience	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 learn	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 one	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 one	cc
26	Gilguerillo	Gilguerillo	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 one	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 one	cop
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 wasted	nsubj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 few	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 few	det
31	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 one	nmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 thinking	cc
33	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	35 thinking	mark
34	of	of	ADP	_	33 instead	fixed
35	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 few	conj
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 life	nmod:poss
37	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 thinking	obj
38	wasted	waste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
39	because	because	SCONJ	_	43 have	mark
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 have	nsubj
41	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 have	aux
42	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 have	advmod
43	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 wasted	ccomp
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 thing	det
45	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 have	obj
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 wanted	nsubj
47	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 thing	acl:relcl
48	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	47 wanted	advmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 tried	punct
50	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 tried	nsubj
51	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 wasted	conj
52	to	to	PART	_	53 busy	mark
53	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 tried	xcomp
54	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	53 busy	obj
55	in	in	ADP	_	57 directions	case
56	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 directions	amod
57	directions	direction	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 busy	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	38 wasted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	river	all men		tree rules
2	know	present	all men			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	wait	to-infinitive	all men not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	present	river		than all men	tree rules
5	learn	can	all men		by experience	vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is a	past	Gilguerillo	one	of the few	tree rules
7	think speech: other	gerund	Gilguerillo not said here	Gilguerillo's life		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot life=Theme
8	waste	past	all men			vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Goal
9	not have	could	Gilguerillo	the thing		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient
10	want	past	Gilguerillo	the thing not said here		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme
11	try	past	Gilguerillo		busy property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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