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title: Unfortunately, though, she had given him rather too much kindness of… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Unfortunately, though, she had given him rather too much kindness of heart, which is a thing that generally gets its possessor into trouble, but so far all things had prospered with King Gridelin. Who acts: Queen, much kindness, thing. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivi
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 3

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Unfortunately, though, she had given him rather too much kindness of heart, which is a thing that generally gets its possessor into trouble, but so far all things had prospered with King Gridelin.

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**Who acts:** Queen, much kindness, thing · **What happens:** give, be, get, prosper · **To what, where:** much kindness, husband, thing, possessor, trouble, things

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, much kindness, thing), 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:pg7277:36:3
# text = Unfortunately, though, she had given him rather too much kindness of heart, which is a thing that generally gets its possessor into trouble, but so far all things had prospered with King Gridelin.
1	Unfortunately	unfortunately	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	though	though	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	iobj	_	_
9	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	too	too	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
21	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	possessor	possessor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
28	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	34	advmod	_	_
31	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	det	_	_
32	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	prospered	prosper	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	Gridelin	Gridelin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past · perfect | Queen | much kindness of heart and a thing | husband |  |  | though, unfortunately *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient kindness=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | much kindness of heart and a thing | a thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **get** | present | a thing | thing's possessor |  | trouble |  | generally *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer possessor=Stimulus |
| 4 | **prosper** | past · perfect · passive |  | all things |  |  |  | with King Gridelin; far *property* | 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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