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title: If you do not catch mice when you are in the Cave for always and alw… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Cat That Walked By Himself, wi
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# Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 145

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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.’

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

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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.

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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:pg2781:12:145
# text = 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.’
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
6	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	14	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
23	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
24	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
28	whenever	whenever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	30	advmod	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
31	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
34	so	so	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
35	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
36	all	all	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
37	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	Men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
39	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	parataxis	_	_
40	after	after	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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:** «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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