The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 43

There had not been one instant of the thousand years that the prince was not happy till one night when he dreamed of his father and mother.

Who acts: thousand years, prince · What happens: have, not be, dream · To what, where: one instant

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thousand years, prince), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 had	expl
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 instant	advmod
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 instant	cop
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 instant	nummod
6	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 years	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 years	det
9	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 years	nummod
10	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 instant	nmod
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 happy	nsubj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 prince	det
13	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 happy	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 happy	cop
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 happy	advmod
16	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 years	acl:relcl
17	till	till	ADP	_	19 night	case
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 night	nummod
19	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 dreamed	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 dreamed	nsubj
22	dreamed	dream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	advcl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 father	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 father	nmod:poss
25	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dreamed	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 mother	cc
27	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 father	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past			there	night		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not is a	participle		one instant		year		tree rules
3	not is	past	the thousand years				happy property	tree rules
4	dream	past	prince				of prince's father and mother	vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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