Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, To Him So Deeply Indebted., sentence 37
An "untouched" photograph is in certain cases infinitely preferable to one which has been carefully "worked upon."
Who acts: untouched photograph · What happens: be, work · To what, where: one, certain cases
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 (untouched photograph), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 photograph | det |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 untouched | punct |
| 3 | untouched | untouched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 photograph | amod |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 untouched | punct |
| 5 | photograph | photograph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 preferable | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 preferable | cop |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 cases | case |
| 8 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cases | amod |
| 9 | cases | case | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 preferable | obl |
| 10 | infinitely | infinitely | ADV | _ | 11 preferable | advmod |
| 11 | preferable | preferable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 one | case |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 preferable | obl |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 worked | nsubj |
| 15 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 carefully | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 carefully | cop |
| 17 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 19 worked | advmod |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 worked | punct |
| 19 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 one | acl:relcl |
| 20 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 19 worked | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 preferable | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 preferable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a untouched photograph | one | certain cases | infinitely, preferable property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | is | present · perfect | carefully property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | work in a quote | past | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=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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