Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, To Him So Deeply Indebted., sentence 36

In the imitation of a finished work of art, elaboration and polish are meet and due, but in a transcript from nature what is most required is fidelity.

Who acts: art · What happens: finish, be, require, imitate, work · To what, where: imitation, nature, fidelity, transcript, finished work

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», To Him So Deeply Indebted.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (art), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 imitation	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 imitation	det
3	imitation	imitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 meet	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 work	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 work	det
6	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 work	amod
7	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 imitation	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 art	case
9	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 work	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 elaboration	punct
11	elaboration	elaboration	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 work	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 polish	cc
13	polish	polish	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 work	conj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 meet	cop
15	meet	meet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 due	cc
17	due	due	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	15 meet	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 fidelity	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 fidelity	cc
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 transcript	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 transcript	det
22	transcript	transcript	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fidelity	obl
23	from	from	ADP	_	24 nature	case
24	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 transcript	nmod
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 required	nsubj:pass
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 required	aux:pass
27	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	28 required	advmod
28	required	require	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 nature	acl:relcl
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 fidelity	cop
30	fidelity	fidelity	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 meet	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 meet	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	finish	participle					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	is	present			the imitation of a finished work of art and elaboration and polish	meet property	tree rules
3	be						tree rules
4	require	present · passive		nature			vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Precondition
5	is a	present		fidelity	a transcript from nature		tree rules
6	imitate			a finished work of art and elaboration and polish			nom imitation «cognition transitive»: of=patient
7	work		art				nom work «act intransitive»: of=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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