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title: There was no answer and Mother Wolf got ready for what she knew woul… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: There was no answer and Mother Wolf got ready for what she knew would be her last fight, if things came to fighting. Who acts: answer, Mother, things. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 3

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There was no answer and Mother Wolf got ready for what she knew would be her last fight, if things came to fighting.

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**Who acts:** answer, Mother, things · **What happens:** be, get, know, come, fight · **To what, where:** last fight

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (answer, Mother, things), 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:pg236:2:3
# text = There was no answer and Mother Wolf got ready for what she knew would be her last fight, if things came to fighting.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	Mother	Mother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	advcl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	obl	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
23	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	fighting	fight	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | no answer |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **get** | past | Mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **know** | past | Mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is a** | would |  | Mother's last fight |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **come** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | things |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **fight** | gerund | things *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «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:** «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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