The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 3, sentence 52

So everyone must see that they could not be long on their way thither.

Who acts: everyone, splendour · What happens: see, not be · To what, where: way

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (everyone, splendour), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 see	advmod
2	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 see	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 long	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 long	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 long	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 long	advmod
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 long	cop
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 see	ccomp
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 way	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 way	nmod:poss
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 long	obl
14	thither	thither	ADV	_	13 way	advmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	must	everyone						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	not is	could	splendour			splendour's way		long property	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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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