The Violet Fairy Book, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened, sentence 41
The young man, watching from his hiding place, wished he had a hundred eyes in his head, for two were not nearly enough for the sight before him, the dances lasting till the first streaks of dawn.
Who acts: young man, man, two, dances · What happens: watch, wish, have, be, last · To what, where: hiding place, hundred eyes, head · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, man, two, dances), 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 man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wished | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 watching | punct |
| 5 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 man | acl |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 place | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 place | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hiding | hiding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 place | compound |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 watching | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 man | punct |
| 11 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 had | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 wished | ccomp |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 hundred | det |
| 15 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 eyes | nummod |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 had | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 head | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 head | nmod:poss |
| 19 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 two | punct |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 two | case |
| 22 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 sight | nsubj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 sight | cop |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 enough | advmod |
| 25 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 26 enough | advmod |
| 26 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 29 sight | advmod |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 sight | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 sight | det |
| 29 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | parataxis |
| 30 | before | before | ADP | _ | 31 him | case |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 sight | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 dances | punct |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 dances | det |
| 34 | dances | dance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 sight | conj |
| 35 | lasting | last | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 34 dances | acl |
| 36 | till | till | ADP | _ | 39 streaks | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 streaks | det |
| 38 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 39 streaks | amod |
| 39 | streaks | streak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 lasting | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 dawn | case |
| 41 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 streaks | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 wished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | gerund | the young man not said here | man's hiding place | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | wish | past | the young man | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have | past | man | hundred eyes | man's head | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | |||
| 4 | is | past | two | before man | for the sight and the dances; enough property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | last | gerund | the dances not said here | till the first streaks of dawn | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: 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: «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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