Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Grave-stone, sentence 9

But nothing more, and even that cannot be seen unless it has been raining, or when we have washed the stone."

Who acts: it, we · What happens: not see, rain, wash · To what, where: that, stone

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Grave-stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, we), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	2 nothing	cc
2	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 nothing	amod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 seen	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 seen	cc
6	even	even	ADV	_	11 seen	advmod
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 seen	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 seen	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 seen	advmod
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 seen	aux:pass
11	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 nothing	parataxis
12	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	16 raining	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 raining	nsubj
14	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 raining	aux
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 raining	aux
16	raining	rain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 seen	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 washed	punct
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 washed	cc
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 washed	advmod
20	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 washed	nsubj
21	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 washed	aux
22	washed	wash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 seen	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 stone	det
24	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 washed	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 nothing	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 nothing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not see	can · passive		that	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
2	rain a condition, not said to happen	present · perfect · progressive	it		vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
3	wash	present · perfect	we	the stone	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Patient

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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