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title: It is not all men who know hot to wait, any more than it is all men… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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, Gilgueri
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 41

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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.

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

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3027:38:41
# text = 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.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	ccomp	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
12	any	any	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	experience	experience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	Gilguerillo	Gilguerillo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	nsubj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	nmod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	35	mark	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	fixed	_	_
35	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	conj	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	wasted	waste	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
39	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
40	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
41	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
42	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	43	advmod	_	_
43	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	ccomp	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
46	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	acl:relcl	_	_
48	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	47	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
50	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
51	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	conj	_	_
52	to	to	PART	TO	_	53	mark	_	_
53	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	xcomp	_	_
54	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	53	obj	_	_
55	in	in	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	directions	direction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	38	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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.

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**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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