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title: This sudden kindness at your hands will only make me more watchful,… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fa
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 5

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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.”

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

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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.

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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:pg21:12:5
# text = 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.”
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
12	watchful	watchful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	under	under	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
17	unexpected	unexpected	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	favours	favour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
24	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
25	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	ends	end	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	accomplish	accomplish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	benefit	benefit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
36	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	’s	's	PART	POS	_	37	case	_	_
39	injury	injury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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:** «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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