The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 31

Prince Vivien attacked it gallantly and a fierce combat ensued, which, however, ended before long in the Prince’s dealing his adversary a terrific blow which felled him to the earth.

Who acts: Prince, fierce combat, terrific blow · What happens: attack, ensue, end, deal, fell · To what, where: gazelle, fierce combat, adversary, Prince

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, fierce combat, terrific blow), 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	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 attacked	nsubj
2	Vivien	Vivien	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Prince	flat
3	attacked	attack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 attacked	obj
5	gallantly	gallantly	ADV	_	3 attacked	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 ’s	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 combat	det
8	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 combat	amod
9	combat	combat	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 ’s	nsubj
10	ensued	ensue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 combat	acl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ended	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 ended	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 which	punct
14	however	however	ADV	_	16 ended	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 however	punct
16	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 combat	parataxis
17	before	before	ADV	_	18 long	advmod
18	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 ended	advmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 Prince	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Prince	det
21	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 ended	obl
22	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 attacked	conj
23	dealing	deal	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 ’s	xcomp
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 adversary	nmod:poss
25	adversary	adversary	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 dealing	obj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 blow	det
27	terrific	terrific	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 blow	amod
28	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 dealing	obj
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 felled	nsubj
30	felled	fell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 blow	acl:relcl
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 felled	obj
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 earth	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 earth	det
34	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 felled	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 attacked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	attack	past	Prince	gazelle	gallantly property	vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	ensue	participle		a fierce combat not said here		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	end	past	a fierce combat		in the Prince; however, long property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	deal	gerund	Prince not said here	Prince's adversary		vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent adversary=Recipient blow=Theme
5	fell	past	a terrific blow	Prince	to the earth	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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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