The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 42

“All things come at last to him who waits;” you must have heard that often.’

Who acts: things, you · What happens: come, wait, hear · To what, where: last, that · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (things, you), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
2	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 things	det
3	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	nsubj
4	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 last	case
6	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 come	obl
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 last	obl
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 waits	nsubj
10	waits	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 last	acl:relcl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 heard	nsubj
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 heard	aux
15	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 heard	aux
16	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 come	parataxis
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 heard	obj
18	often	often	ADV	_	16 heard	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	present	all things		last		tree rules
2	wait in a quote	present					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hear	must · perfect	you	that		often property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus

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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