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title: He ceased working to take a little rest, thinking within himself, “I… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: He ceased working to take a little rest, thinking within himself, “I am much afraid my mother had cause enough to laugh at me.” Who acts: dream, mother. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 17, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 6

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He ceased working to take a little rest, thinking within himself, “I am much afraid my mother had cause enough to laugh at me.”

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**Who acts:** dream, mother · **What happens:** cease, work, take, think, be, cause · **To what, where:** little rest · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dream, mother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg65965:17:6
# text = He ceased working to take a little rest, thinking within himself, “I am much afraid my mother had cause enough to laugh at me.”
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ceased	cease	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	working	work	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
11	within	within	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	much	much	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	cause	cause	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	ccomp	_	_
23	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cease** | past | dream |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **work** | gerund | dream *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **take** | to-infinitive | dream *not said here* | a little rest |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Theme |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | dream *not said here* |  |  |  |  | within dream | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | dream |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **cause** *in a quote* | past · perfect | my mother |  |  |  |  | enough *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **laugh** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | my mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at dream | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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:** «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (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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