Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 16

Be as slow as thou canst, for thy dogs have gnawed their way through two doors."

Who acts: you · What happens: be, gnaw · To what, where: dogs, two doors

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, 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 (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	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 slow	cop
2	as	as	ADV	_	3 slow	advmod
3	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 canst	mark
5	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	6 canst	nsubj
6	canst	can	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	3 slow	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 gnawed	punct
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 gnawed	mark
9	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	10 dogs	nmod:poss
10	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 gnawed	nsubj:pass
11	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 gnawed	aux
12	gnawed	gnaw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 slow	conj
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 way	nmod:poss
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gnawed	obj
15	through	through	ADP	_	17 doors	case
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 doors	nummod
17	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 gnawed	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 slow	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 slow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here					slow property	tree rules
2	gnaw	present · perfect · passive		thy dogs		two doors			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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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