The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 2, sentence 3
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 · What happens: be, get, know, come, fight · To what, where: last fight
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.
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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 answer | det |
| 4 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 got | cc |
| 6 | Mother | Mother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 got | nsubj |
| 7 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Mother | flat |
| 8 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | conj |
| 9 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 fight | advcl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 what | case |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 ready | obl |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 knew | nsubj |
| 13 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 what | acl:relcl |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 fight | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 fight | cop |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 fight | nmod:poss |
| 17 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 fight | amod |
| 18 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 got | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 came | punct |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 came | mark |
| 21 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 came | nsubj |
| 22 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 got | conj |
| 23 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 24 fighting | mark |
| 24 | fighting | fight | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 came | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | 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 |
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.
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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