The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 79

Then, if you had been watching, you would have seen the most wonderful thing in the world--the wolf checked in mid-spring.

Who acts: you · What happens: watch, see, check · To what, where: wonderful thing, world, wolf, mid-spring

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 seen	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 watching	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 watching	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 watching	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 watching	aux
7	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 seen	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 watching	punct
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 seen	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 seen	aux
11	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 seen	aux
12	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 thing	det
14	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	15 wonderful	advmod
15	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 thing	amod
16	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 seen	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 world	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 world	det
19	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 thing	nmod
20	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 wolf	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 wolf	det
22	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 thing	appos
23	checked	check	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 wolf	acl
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 mid-spring	case
25	mid-spring	mid-spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 checked	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	watch a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · progressive	you				vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
2	see	would · perfect	you	the wonderful thing	the world	then	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
3	check	participle		the wolf not said here	mid-spring		vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in mid-spring=Location

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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