Just so stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, sentence 92

‘I meant I was thinking, and didn’t want to be disturbed.’

Who acts: I · What happens: mean, think, not want, disturb · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the Alphabet Was Made. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 meant	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 meant	nsubj
3	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 thinking	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 thinking	aux
6	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 meant	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 want	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 want	cc
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 want	aux
10	n’t	n't	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 want	aux
11	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 meant	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	14 disturbed	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 disturbed	aux:pass
14	disturbed	disturb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 want	xcomp
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 meant	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 meant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	mean	past	I	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	think speech: other	past · progressive	I	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not want	past · do-support	I not said here	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	disturb not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	I not said here	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»

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: «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 2781 (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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