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title: Hasten to render this service to your master, although it is against… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 69

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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.

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

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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.

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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:pg7277:19:69
# text = 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.
1	Hasten	hasten	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	render	render	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
13	against	against	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	ambition	ambition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	prepare	prepare	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	like	like	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	return	return	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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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