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title: This unconsciously involves a perfect art with regard to detail; so… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: This unconsciously involves a perfect art with regard to detail; so much is told as a man would remember of an experience; there is no striving after impressionism, nor meticulous detail. Who acts: This, man, striving. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 1, with its 
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 46

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This unconsciously involves a perfect art with regard to detail; so much is told as a man would remember of an experience; there is no striving after impressionism, nor meticulous detail.

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**Who acts:** This, man, striving · **What happens:** involve, tell, remember, be · **To what, where:** perfect art · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, 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 (This, man, striving), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62509:1:47
# text = This unconsciously involves a perfect art with regard to detail; so much is told as a man would remember of an experience; there is no striving after impressionism, nor meticulous detail.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	unconsciously	unconsciously	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	involves	involve	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	regard	regard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	detail	detail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	much	much	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	experience	experience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
25	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	26	expl	_	_
26	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
27	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	28	det	_	_
28	striving	striving	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
29	after	after	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	impressionism	impressionism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	34	cc	_	_
33	meticulous	meticulous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	detail	detail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **involve** | present | This | a perfect art |  |  |  | with regard to detail; meticulous detail *obl*; unconsciously *property* | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent art=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · passive | This *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: clause=Topic |
| 3 | **remember** *not said to happen* | would | a man |  |  |  |  | of a experience | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **be** | present | no striving after impressionism |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (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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