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title: Every anniversary of the day they went to the ruins to thank the fai… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Every anniversary of the day they went to the ruins to thank the fairy, who, however, ever afterward remained invisible. Who acts: anniversary. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 121

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Every anniversary of the day they went to the ruins to thank the fairy, who, however, ever afterward remained invisible.

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**Who acts:** anniversary · **What happens:** go, thank, remain · **To what, where:** ruins, fairy

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (anniversary), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg74323:10:122
# text = Every anniversary of the day they went to the ruins to thank the fairy, who, however, ever afterward remained invisible.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	anniversary	anniversary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	ruins	ruin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	thank	thank	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	however	however	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	21	advmod	_	_
21	afterward	afterward	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	remained	remain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl:relcl	_	_
23	invisible	invisible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | every anniversary of the day |  |  | the ruins |  | chambers *= chamber* *nsubj* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to ruin=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **thank** *speech: thank* | to-infinitive | every anniversary of the day *not said here* |  | the fairy |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fairy=Theme |
| 3 | **remain** | participle |  | the fairy |  |  | ever | afterward, however, invisible *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:** «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Project Gutenberg book 74323 (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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