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title: She knew as well as I did that if there is one thing in the world th… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She knew as well as I did that if there is one thing in the world the elephant is more afraid of than another it is a little barking dog. Who acts: Vixen, I, one thing, elephant. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 49

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She knew as well as I did that if there is one thing in the world the elephant is more afraid of than another it is a little barking dog.

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**Who acts:** Vixen, I, one thing, elephant · **What happens:** know, do, be · **To what, where:** that, one thing, little barking dog

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vixen, I, one thing, elephant), 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:pg236:20:49
# text = She knew as well as I did that if there is one thing in the world the elephant is more afraid of than another it is a little barking dog.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	2	advmod	_	_
4	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	fixed	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	obj	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	11	expl	_	_
11	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	21	advmod	_	_
21	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	acl:relcl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	than	than	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	obl	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	barking	barking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | Vixen |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **do** | past | I | that |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |
| 3 | **be** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | one thing in the world |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | the elephant | one thing in the world *not said here* |  |  |  | of another; afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | present | elephant | a little barking dog |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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