The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 51

On the third day the combat was so fierce that they fell both to the ground at once, and fought on their feet, and at last the black knight gave his foe such a blow on his head that his helmet fell from his face.

Who acts: combat, arms, last, helmet · What happens: be, fall, fight, give · To what, where: feet, foe, blow, face

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (combat, arms, last, helmet), 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 day	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 day	det
3	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 day	amod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fierce	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 combat	det
6	combat	combat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fierce	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fierce	cop
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 fierce	advmod
9	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 fell	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 fell	nsubj
12	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fierce	advcl
13	both	both	ADV	_	12 fell	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 ground	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 ground	det
16	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fell	obl
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 once	case
18	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 fell	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 fought	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 fought	cc
21	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 fell	conj
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 feet	case
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 feet	nmod:poss
24	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 fought	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 gave	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 gave	cc
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 last	case
28	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 gave	nsubj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 knight	det
30	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 knight	amod
31	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 last	nsubj
32	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fierce	conj
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 foe	nmod:poss
34	foe	foe	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 gave	obj
35	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	37 blow	det:predet
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 blow	det
37	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 gave	obj
38	on	on	ADP	_	40 head	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 head	nmod:poss
40	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 blow	nmod
41	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 fell	obl:unmarked
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 helmet	nmod:poss
43	helmet	helmet	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 fell	nsubj
44	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 blow	acl:relcl
45	from	from	ADP	_	47 face	case
46	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 face	nmod:poss
47	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 fell	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 fierce	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the combat			day	fierce property	tree rules
2	fall	past	arms = arm				to the ground; both property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location
3	fight	past	arms = arm not said here		arms's feet			vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	give	past	last	knight's foe				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent foe=Recipient blow=Theme
5	fall	past	knight's helmet	such blow	knight's face			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from face=Initial_Location

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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