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title: The girl wept for many days, but by-and-by she felt that, being alon… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet, sentence 16

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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.

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

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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.

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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:pg641:31:16
# text = 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.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
9	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	cop	_	_
19	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	15	ccomp	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
29	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
34	only	only	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	33	obl	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	depend	depend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
38	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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 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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