Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 121
Every anniversary of the day they went to the ruins to thank the fairy, who, however, ever afterward remained invisible.
Who acts: anniversary · What happens: go, thank, remain · To what, where: ruins, fairy
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.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 anniversary | det |
| 2 | anniversary | anniversary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 day | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 day | det |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 anniversary | nmod |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 ruins | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ruins | det |
| 10 | ruins | ruin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 went | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 thank | mark |
| 12 | thank | thank | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 went | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fairy | det |
| 14 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 thank | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 remained | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 remained | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 who | punct |
| 18 | however | however | ADV | _ | 22 remained | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 however | punct |
| 20 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 21 afterward | advmod |
| 21 | afterward | afterward | ADV | _ | 22 remained | advmod |
| 22 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 fairy | acl:relcl |
| 23 | invisible | invisible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 remained | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | 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 |
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: «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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