The Violet Fairy Book, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet, sentence 16

The girl wept for many days, but by-and-by she felt that, being alone in the world, she must go and get work, for she had only herself to depend upon.

Who acts: girl · What happens: weep, feel, be, go, get, have · To what, where: work, girl

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wept	nsubj
3	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 days	case
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 days	amod
6	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wept	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 felt	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 felt	cc
9	by	by	SCONJ	_	15 felt	mark
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 by	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 by	cc
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 by	punct
13	by	by	SCONJ	_	15 felt	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 felt	nsubj
15	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wept	conj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 alone	mark
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 alone	punct
18	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 alone	cop
19	alone	alone	ADV	_	15 felt	ccomp
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 world	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 world	det
22	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 felt	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 go	punct
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 go	nsubj
25	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 go	aux
26	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wept	parataxis
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 get	cc
28	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 go	conj
29	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 get	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 had	punct
31	for	for	ADP	_	33 had	case
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 had	nsubj
33	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wept	conj
34	only	only	ADV	_	35 herself	advmod
35	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	33 had	obl
36	to	to	PART	_	37 depend	mark
37	depend	depend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 had	xcomp
38	upon	upon	ADP	_	37 depend	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	weep	past	the girl		day		vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	feel	past	girl			in the world	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in world=Attribute
3	is	gerund	girl not said here			alone property	tree rules
4	go	must	girl				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	get	infinitive	girl not said here	work			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer work=Stimulus
6	have	past	girl	girl			tree rules
7	depend	to-infinitive	girl not said here				vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent

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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