The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 3

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

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.

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	Unfortunately	unfortunately	ADV	_	7 given	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Unfortunately	punct
3	though	though	ADV	_	7 given	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 though	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 given	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 given	aux
7	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 given	iobj
9	rather	rather	ADV	_	11 much	advmod
10	too	too	ADV	_	11 much	advmod
11	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 kindness	amod
12	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 given	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 heart	case
14	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 kindness	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 thing	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 thing	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 thing	cop
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 thing	det
19	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 kindness	conj
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 gets	nsubj
21	generally	generally	ADV	_	22 gets	advmod
22	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 thing	acl:relcl
23	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 possessor	nmod:poss
24	possessor	possessor	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gets	obj
25	into	into	ADP	_	26 trouble	case
26	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gets	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 prospered	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 prospered	cc
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 far	advmod
30	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	34 prospered	advmod
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 things	det
32	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 prospered	nsubj:pass
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 prospered	aux
34	prospered	prosper	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 given	conj
35	with	with	ADP	_	37 Gridelin	case
36	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Gridelin	compound
37	Gridelin	Gridelin	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 prospered	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 given	punct

Pragmatics

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

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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