Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Turnip, sentence 33

So the student sat himself down and waited a while; but the time hung heavy upon him, and he begged earnestly that he might ascend forthwith, for his thirst for knowledge was great.

Who acts: student, time, knowledge · What happens: sit down, wait, hang, beg, ascend, be · To what, where: student

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Turnip. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (student, time, knowledge), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 sat	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 student	det
3	student	student	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 sat	obj
6	down	down	ADP	_	4 sat	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 waited	cc
8	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 while	det
10	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 waited	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 hung	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 hung	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 time	det
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hung	nsubj
15	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
16	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 hung	xcomp
17	upon	upon	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 hung	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 begged	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 begged	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 begged	nsubj
22	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
23	earnestly	earnestly	ADV	_	22 begged	advmod
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 ascend	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 ascend	nsubj
26	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 ascend	aux
27	ascend	ascend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 begged	advcl
28	forthwith	forthwith	ADV	_	27 ascend	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 thirst	punct
30	for	for	ADP	_	32 thirst	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 thirst	nmod:poss
32	thirst	thirst	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 begged	conj
33	for	for	ADP	_	36 great	case
34	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 great	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 great	cop
36	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 thirst	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	the student	student			tree rules
2	wait	past	the student not said here		while		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hang	past	the time			upon student; heavy property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon he=Location
4	beg speech: request	past	student			earnestly property	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
5	ascend	might	student			forthwith property	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is	past	knowledge			great property	tree rules
7	thirst		student				nom thirst «state intransitive»: poss=agent

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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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