Just so stories, The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 34

He hadn’t any time for rest or refreshment, and he wanted them very much.

Who acts: Kangaroo · What happens: not have, want · To what, where: rest

This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kangaroo), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 had	advmod
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 rest	case
7	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 time	nmod
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 refreshment	cc
9	refreshment	refreshment	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rest	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wanted	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 wanted	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 wanted	nsubj
13	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 wanted	obj
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 much	advmod
16	much	much	ADV	_	13 wanted	advmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not have	past	Kangaroo				time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	want	past	Kangaroo	rest					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme

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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