--- title: The young man, watching from his hiding place, wished he had a hundr… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: 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. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Young --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/34/41/) [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 Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/34/) / 41 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg641:34:41 # text = 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. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 watching watch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 acl _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 hiding hiding NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 11 wished wish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 ccomp _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 nsubj _ _ 23 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 25 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 enough enough ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 27 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 parataxis _ _ 30 before before ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 dances dance NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 conj _ _ 35 lasting last VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 34 acl _ _ 36 till till ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 39 amod _ _ 39 streaks streak NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 dawn dawn NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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. - ← previous: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/34/40/) - next →: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/34/42/) - ↑ back to [The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/34/)