Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 5

This sudden kindness at your hands will only make me more watchful, lest under these unexpected favours to myself, you have some private ends to accomplish for your own benefit, and for my master’s injury.”

Who acts: sudden kindness, you, private ends, master · What happens: make, have, accomplish, injure · To what, where: me, private ends

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sudden kindness, you, private ends, master), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 kindness	det
2	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 kindness	amod
3	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 make	nsubj
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 hands	case
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hands	nmod:poss
6	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 kindness	nmod
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 make	aux
8	only	only	ADV	_	9 make	advmod
9	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 make	obj
11	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 watchful	advmod
12	watchful	watchful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 make	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 favours	punct
14	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	18 favours	case
15	under	under	ADP	_	18 favours	case
16	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	18 favours	det
17	unexpected	unexpected	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 favours	amod
18	favours	favour	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 make	obl
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 myself	case
20	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 favours	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 have	punct
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 have	nsubj
23	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 make	parataxis
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	26 ends	det
25	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 ends	amod
26	ends	end	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 have	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 accomplish	mark
28	accomplish	accomplish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 have	xcomp
29	for	for	ADP	_	32 benefit	case
30	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 benefit	nmod:poss
31	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 benefit	amod
32	benefit	benefit	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 accomplish	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 injury	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 injury	cc
35	for	for	ADP	_	39 injury	case
36	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 master	nmod:poss
37	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 injury	nmod:poss
38	’s	's	PART	_	37 master	case
39	injury	injury	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 make	parataxis
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 make	punct
41	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	future	this sudden kindness at your hands	me	lest this unexpected favours to myself; watchful property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset i=Product
2	have	present	you	some private ends		tree rules
3	accomplish	to-infinitive	some private ends not said here		for your own benefit	vn complete-55.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	injure		my master			nom injury «state transitive»: poss=agent

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: «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (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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