The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 101

Watch, however, as the money sinks into the water, and if anything should swim, catch it and keep it, even if it is nothing more than a bit of paper.”

Who acts: you, money, anything, water · What happens: watch, sink, swim, catch, keep, be · To what, where: water, nothing

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, money, anything, water), 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	Watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 however	punct
3	however	however	ADV	_	1 Watch	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sinks	punct
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 sinks	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 money	det
7	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sinks	nsubj
8	sinks	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Watch	parataxis
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 water	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 water	det
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sinks	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 swim	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 swim	cc
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 swim	mark
15	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	17 swim	nsubj
16	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 swim	aux
17	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Watch	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 catch	punct
19	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Watch	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 catch	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 keep	cc
22	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	19 catch	conj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 keep	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 nothing	punct
25	even	even	ADV	_	29 nothing	advmod
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 nothing	mark
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 nothing	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 nothing	cop
29	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	19 catch	parataxis
30	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 nothing	amod
31	than	than	ADP	_	33 bit	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 bit	det
33	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 more	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 paper	case
35	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bit	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Watch	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Watch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	watch	imperative	you not said here			however property	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
2	sink	present	the money		the water		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	swim a condition, not said to happen	should	anything				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	catch	infinitive	you not said here	water			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	keep	infinitive	you not said here	water			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	is a a condition, not said to happen	present	water	nothing			tree rules

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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