Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 145

If you do not catch mice when you are in the Cave for always and always and always, I will throw these five things at you whenever I see you, and so shall all proper Men do after me.’

Who acts: you, I, proper Men · What happens: not catch, be, throw, see, do · To what, where: mice, Cave, five things, you

This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Cat That Walked By Himself. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, proper Men), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 catch	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 catch	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 catch	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 catch	advmod
5	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 throw	advcl
6	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 catch	obj
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 Cave	advmod
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 Cave	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 Cave	cop
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 Cave	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Cave	det
12	Cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 catch	obl
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 always	case
14	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 catch	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 always	cc
16	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	14 always	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 always	cc
18	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	14 always	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 catch	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 throw	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 throw	aux
22	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
23	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	25 things	det
24	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 things	nummod
25	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 throw	obj
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 you	case
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 throw	obl
28	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	30 see	advmod
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 see	nsubj
30	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 throw	advcl
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 see	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 do	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 do	cc
34	so	so	ADV	_	39 do	advmod
35	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 do	aux
36	all	all	ADV	_	38 Men	advmod
37	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 Men	amod
38	Men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 do	nsubj
39	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 throw	parataxis
40	after	after	ADP	_	41 me	case
41	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 do	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 throw	punct
43	’	'	PUNCT	_	22 throw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not catch a condition, not said to happen	present · do-support	you	mice				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme for always=Beneficiary
2	is	present	you		the Cave			tree rules
3	throw	future	I	this five things			at you	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent thing=Theme at you=Destination
4	see	present	I	you			whenever property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
5	do	shall	proper Men			after me		vn act-114-1 «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: «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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