Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1, sentence 58

A painter's rough notes and jottings are often more true to nature than the most finished picture into which they may be developed.

Who acts: rough notes, painter · What happens: be, develop, note · To what, where: notes, finished picture

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, 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 (rough notes, painter), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 painter	det
2	painter	painter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 notes	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 painter	case
4	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 notes	amod
5	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 true	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 jottings	cc
7	jottings	jotting	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 notes	conj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 true	cop
9	often	often	ADV	_	11 true	advmod
10	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 true	amod
11	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 nature	mark
13	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 true	advcl
14	than	than	ADP	_	18 picture	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 picture	det
16	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	17 finished	advmod
17	finished	finished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 picture	amod
18	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 true	obl
19	into	into	ADP	_	20 which	case
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 developed	obl
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 developed	nsubj
22	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 developed	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 developed	aux:pass
24	developed	develop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 picture	acl:relcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 true	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	a painter's rough notes and jottings			than the finished picture; often, true property	tree rules
2	develop	may · passive		notes = note	the finished picture		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: subject=Material into which=Product
3	note		a painter				nom note «communication transitive»: poss=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: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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