The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 105
‘Waiting till the moon gets out of my way.’
Who acts: Waiting · What happens: get out · To what, where: way
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Waiting), 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 | _ | 6 gets | punct |
| 2 | Waiting | waiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gets | nsubj |
| 3 | till | till | ADP | _ | 5 moon | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 moon | det |
| 5 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Waiting | nmod |
| 6 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 way | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 way | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 way | nmod:poss |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gets | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gets | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 gets | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get out | present | Waiting till the moon | my way | tree rules |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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