The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 74

“If Teddy doesn’t pick him up by the tail, or try to put him in a cage, he’ll run in and out of the house all day long.

Who acts: Teddy, you · What happens: not do, pick up, try, put, run · To what, where: Teddy, cage

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Teddy, you), 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	_	6 pick	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 does	mark
3	Teddy	Teddy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 does	nsubj
4	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 pick	advcl
5	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 does	advmod
6	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 pick	obj
8	up	up	ADP	_	6 pick	compound:prt
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 tail	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tail	det
11	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pick	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 try	punct
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 try	cc
14	try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 pick	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 put	mark
16	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 try	xcomp
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 put	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 cage	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 cage	det
20	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 put	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 run	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 run	nsubj
23	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 run	aux
24	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 try	parataxis
25	in	in	ADV	_	24 run	advmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 long	cc
27	out	out	ADP	_	30 house	case
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 house	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 house	det
30	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 long	obl
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 day	det
32	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 long	obl:unmarked
33	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 run	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 pick	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not do a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	Teddy				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	pick up in a quote	imperative	you not said here	Teddy		by the tail	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
3	try in a quote	infinitive	you not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	put not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	Teddy	a cage		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in cage=Destination
5	run in a quote	future	Teddy				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 236 (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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