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title: “If Teddy doesn’t pick him up by the tail, or try to put him in a ca… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “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. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 74

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“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.

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

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg236:13:74
# text = “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.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	Teddy	Teddy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
6	pick	pick	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	try	try	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	cage	cage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	parataxis	_	_
25	in	in	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
27	out	out	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
31	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	det	_	_
32	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl:unmarked	_	_
33	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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.

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**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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