Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Buckwheat, sentence 2

The country people say that this appearance is caused by lightning; but I will tell you what the sparrow says, and the sparrow heard it from an old willow-tree which grew near a field of buckwheat, and is there still.

Who acts: country people, lightning, I, sparrow, old willow tree · What happens: say, cause, tell, hear, grow, be · To what, where: appearance, you, old willow tree, field · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Buckwheat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (country people, lightning, I, sparrow), 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	3 people	det
2	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 people	compound
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 caused	mark
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 appearance	det
7	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 caused	nsubj:pass
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 caused	aux:pass
9	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 say	ccomp
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 lightning	case
11	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 caused	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 tell	cc
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 tell	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 tell	aux
16	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 say	conj
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 tell	iobj
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 says	obj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sparrow	det
20	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 says	nsubj
21	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 tell	ccomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 heard	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 heard	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 sparrow	det
25	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 heard	nsubj
26	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 say	parataxis
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 heard	obj
28	from	from	ADP	_	33 tree	case
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 tree	det
30	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 tree	amod
31	willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 tree	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 willow	punct
33	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 heard	obl
34	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 grew	nsubj
35	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 tree	acl:relcl
36	near	near	ADP	_	38 field	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 field	det
38	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 grew	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 buckwheat	case
40	buckwheat	buckwheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 field	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 is	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 is	cc
43	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 say	parataxis
44	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	43 is	expl
45	still	still	ADV	_	43 is	advmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the country people					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	cause	present · passive	lightning	this appearance				vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient
3	tell speech: assert	future	I		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
4	say speech: assert	present	the sparrow					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
5	hear	past	the sparrow	appearance		a old willow tree		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Topic from tree=Source
6	grow	past	a old willow tree			a field of buckwheat		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near field=Location
7	be	present				there	still	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: «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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