The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 69

Hasten to render this service to your master, although it is against your own ambition, and prepare, like an honest man, to return to your natural state.

Who acts: you, service · What happens: hasten, render, be, prepare, return · To what, where: service, master

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, service), 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	Hasten	hasten	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 render	mark
3	render	render	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Hasten	xcomp
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 service	det
5	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 render	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 master	case
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 master	nmod:poss
8	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 render	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ambition	punct
10	although	although	SCONJ	_	16 ambition	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 ambition	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 ambition	cop
13	against	against	ADP	_	16 ambition	case
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 ambition	nmod:poss
15	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 ambition	amod
16	ambition	ambition	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 render	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 prepare	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 prepare	cc
19	prepare	prepare	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Hasten	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 man	punct
21	like	like	ADP	_	24 man	case
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 man	det
23	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 man	amod
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 prepare	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 return	punct
26	to	to	PART	_	27 return	mark
27	return	return	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	19 prepare	conj
28	to	to	ADP	_	31 state	case
29	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 state	nmod:poss
30	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 state	amod
31	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 return	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Hasten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hasten	imperative	you not said here				tree rules
2	render	to-infinitive	you not said here	this service	your master		vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent service=Theme to master=Recipient
3	is	present	service			against your own ambition	tree rules
4	prepare	infinitive				like a honest man	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	return	to-infinitive				to your natural state result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to state=Result

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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