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title: Prince Vivien attacked it gallantly and a fierce combat ensued, whic… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 31

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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.

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

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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.

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**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:pg7277:37:31
# text = 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.
1	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Vivien	Vivien	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	attacked	attack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	gallantly	gallantly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	combat	combat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
10	ensued	ensue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	however	however	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	ended	end	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
17	before	before	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	dealing	deal	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	xcomp	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	adversary	adversary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	terrific	terrific	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
30	felled	fell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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.

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**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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