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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hans	han	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wait	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wait	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 wait	advmod
4	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	7 asked	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 asked	aux:pass
7	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 wait	advcl
8	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 asked	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stooped	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 stooped	cc
11	stooped	stoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wait	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 pick	mark
13	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 stooped	xcomp
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 pick	compound:prt
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 bar	det
16	bar	bar	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pick	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 gold	case
18	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bar	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 move	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 move	cc
21	though	though	SCONJ	_	23 put	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 put	nsubj
23	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 move	advcl
24	forth	forth	ADV	_	23 put	advmod
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 strength	det:predet
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 strength	nmod:poss
27	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 put	obj
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 move	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 move	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 move	advmod
31	even	even	ADV	_	32 move	advmod
32	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wait	parataxis
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 move	obj
34	with	with	ADP	_	36 hands	case
35	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	36 hands	det
36	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 move	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 lift	punct
38	still	still	ADV	_	40 lift	advmod
39	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	40 lift	amod
40	lift	lift	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 move	obl
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 lift	nsubj
42	off	off	ADP	_	44 ground	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 ground	det
44	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 move	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wait	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, 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.

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