--- title: At noontide, when his fellow-laborers gave up working, and sat down… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: At noontide, when his fellow-laborers gave up working, and sat down to rest and eat, Wang Chih took his axe and went up the mountain slope to find a small tree he might cut down for fuel. Who acts: fellow laborers, Wang. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfie --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/22/81/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Jade Story Book; Stories from the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/) / [Opening, part 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/22/) / 81 # The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 81 At noontide, when his fellow-laborers gave up working, and sat down to rest and eat, Wang Chih took his axe and went up the mountain slope to find a small tree he might cut down for fuel. **Who acts:** fellow laborers, Wang · **What happens:** give up, work, sit down, rest, eat, take · **To what, where:** noontide, axe, mountain slope, small tree This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fellow laborers, Wang), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg65965:22:83 # text = At noontide, when his fellow-laborers gave up working, and sat down to rest and eat, Wang Chih took his axe and went up the mountain slope to find a small tree he might cut down for fuel. 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 noontide noontide NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 6 fellow fellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 laborers laborer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 up up ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 11 working work VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 15 down down ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 rest rest VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 Wang Wang PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 22 Chih Chih PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 flat _ _ 23 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 24 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 axe axe NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 28 up up ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 slope slope NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 advcl _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 37 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 38 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 cut cut VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 acl:relcl _ _ 40 down down ADP RP _ 39 compound:prt _ _ 41 for for ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 fuel fuel NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give up** | past | Wang's fellow laborers | | | noontide | | | tree rules | | 2 | **work** | gerund | Wang's fellow laborers *not said here* | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **sit down** | past | Wang's fellow laborers *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **rest** | to-infinitive | Wang's fellow laborers *not said here* | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **eat** | infinitive | Wang's fellow laborers *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **take** | past | Wang | Wang's axe | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme | | 7 | **go up** | past | Wang *not said here* | the mountain slope | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient slope=Extent | | 8 | **find** | to-infinitive | Wang *not said here* | a small tree | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Topic | | 9 | **cut down** | might | Wang | a small tree *not said here* | | | | for fuel | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent tree=Product for fuel=Asset | 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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/22/80/) - next →: [sentence 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/22/82/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/22/)