--- title: Hans did not wait to be asked twice, and stooped to pick up a bar of… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Hans did not wait to be asked twice, and stooped to pick up a bar of gold, but though he put forth all his strength he could not even move it with both hands, still less lift it off the ground. Who acts: Hans, present, strength. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground W --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/25/43/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [The Underground Workers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/25/) / 43 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 43 Hans did not wait to be asked twice, and stooped to pick up a bar of gold, but though he put forth all his strength he could not even move it with both hands, still less lift it off the ground. **Who acts:** Hans, present, strength · **What happens:** not wait, ask, stoop, pick up, put, not move · **To what, where:** bar, strength, ground This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hans, present, strength), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg641:25:43 # text = Hans did not wait to be asked twice, and stooped to pick up a bar of gold, but though he put forth all his strength he could not even move it with both hands, still less lift it off the ground. 1 Hans han NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 6 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 asked ask VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 advcl _ _ 8 twice twice ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 stooped stoop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 pick pick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 14 up up ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 bar bar NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 21 though though SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 advcl _ _ 24 forth forth ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 25 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 27 det:predet _ _ 26 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 strength strength NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 29 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 30 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 31 even even ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 move move VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 36 det _ _ 36 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 still still ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 39 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 40 amod _ _ 40 lift lift NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 41 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 42 off off ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **wait** | past · do-support | Hans | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive · passive | Hans *not said here* | | | | | twice *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V» | | 3 | **stoop** | past | Hans *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **pick up** | to-infinitive | Hans *not said here* | a bar of gold | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bar=Topic | | 5 | **put** | past | present | present's strength | | | | forth *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent strength=Goal | | 6 | **not** **move** | could | present | strength | | the ground | | with both hands | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme off ground=Trajectory | | 7 | **lift** | | strength | | | | still | | tree rules | 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:** «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/25/42/) - next →: [sentence 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/25/44/) - ↑ back to [The Underground Workers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/25/)