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title: He will kill mice and he will be kind to Babies when he is in the ho… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: He will kill mice and he will be kind to Babies when he is in the house, just as long as they do not pull his tail too hard. Who acts: Cat, trees. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Cat That Walked By Himself, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Just so stories, The Cat That Walked By Himself, sentence 163

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He will kill mice and he will be kind to Babies when he is in the house, just as long as they do not pull his tail too hard.

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**Who acts:** Cat, trees · **What happens:** kill, be, not pull · **To what, where:** mice, Babies, house, tail

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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 (Cat, trees), 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:pg2781:12:163
# text = He will kill mice and he will be kind to Babies when he is in the house, just as long as they do not pull his tail too hard.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
9	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Babies	Baby	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	just	just	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	as	as	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	too	too	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | future | Cat | mice |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | future | Cat |  | Babies |  |  | kind *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | Cat |  |  | the house |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **pull** | present · do-support | trees *= tree* | Cat's tail |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=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:** «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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