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title: In the imitation of a finished work of art, elaboration and polish a… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», To Him So Deeply Indebted., with its dependency tree
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, To Him So Deeply Indebted., sentence 36

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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.

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

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg22373:3:36
# text = 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.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	imitation	imitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	finished	finish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	elaboration	elaboration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	polish	polish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	meet	meet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	transcript	transcript	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
27	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	28	advmod	_	_
28	required	require	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl:relcl	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	fidelity	fidelity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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.

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**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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