The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 6

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

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.

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

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ceased	nsubj
2	ceased	cease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 ceased	xcomp
4	to	to	PART	_	5 take	mark
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 working	advcl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 rest	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 rest	amod
8	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 thinking	punct
10	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 ceased	advcl
11	within	within	ADP	_	12 himself	case
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 thinking	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 afraid	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 afraid	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 afraid	nsubj
16	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 afraid	cop
17	much	much	ADV	_	18 afraid	advmod
18	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ceased	parataxis
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 mother	nmod:poss
20	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cause	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 cause	aux
22	cause	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 afraid	ccomp
23	enough	enough	ADV	_	22 cause	advmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 laugh	mark
25	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 cause	xcomp
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 me	case
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 laugh	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 afraid	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 ceased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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

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.

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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 6

The tree

Pragmatics

The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 6