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title: “No. Now you mention it,” said Billy, “you don’t look as though you… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “No. Now you mention it,” said Billy, “you don’t look as though you were made for climbing or running--much. Who acts: you, Billy. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 96

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“No. Now you mention it,” said Billy, “you don’t look as though you were made for climbing or running--much.

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**Who acts:** you, Billy · **What happens:** mention, say, not look, make, run · **To what, where:** No., you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Billy), 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:pg236:19:96
# text = “No. Now you mention it,” said Billy, “you don’t look as though you were made for climbing or running--much.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	No.	no.	NOUN	NN	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	5	dislocated	_	_
3	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	mention	mention	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	Billy	Billy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
17	as	as	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	advcl	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	climbing	climbing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	much	much	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mention** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | you | No. |  |  |  | No. *dislocated* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Billy |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **look** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **make** *in a quote* | past · passive |  | you |  |  |  | for climbing | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for climbing=Asset |
| 5 | **run** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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