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title: An "untouched" photograph is in certain cases infinitely preferable… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: An "untouched" photograph is in certain cases infinitely preferable to one which has been carefully "worked upon." Who acts: untouched photograph. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», To Him So Deeply Indebted., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, To Him So Deeply Indebted., sentence 37

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An "untouched" photograph is in certain cases infinitely preferable to one which has been carefully "worked upon."

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**Who acts:** untouched photograph · **What happens:** be, work · **To what, where:** one, certain cases

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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 (untouched photograph), 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:pg22373:3:37
# text = An "untouched" photograph is in certain cases infinitely preferable to one which has been carefully "worked upon."
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	untouched	untouched	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	photograph	photograph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	cases	case	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
10	infinitely	infinitely	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	preferable	preferable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
15	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	cop	_	_
17	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
20	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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