Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 105
Sometimes, like Baldur, he cannot be killed except by one substance; sometimes his "death"--that is, the object with which his life is indissolubly connected--does not exist within his body.
Who acts: that, Baldur · What happens: not kill, be, connect, not exist, die · To what, where: Baldur, object, life
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, Baldur), 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 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 10 killed | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sometimes | punct |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 Baldur | case |
| 4 | Baldur | Baldur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 killed | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Baldur | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 killed | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 killed | advmod |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 killed | aux:pass |
| 10 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | except | except | ADP | _ | 14 substance | case |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 substance | case |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 substance | nummod |
| 14 | substance | substance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 killed | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 death | punct |
| 16 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 19 death | advmod |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 death | nmod:poss |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 death | punct |
| 19 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 killed | parataxis |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 death | punct |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 26 object | punct |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 object | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 object | cop |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 is | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 object | det |
| 26 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 death | appos |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 which | case |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 connected | obl |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 life | nmod:poss |
| 30 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 connected | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 connected | aux:pass |
| 32 | indissolubly | indissolubly | ADV | _ | 33 connected | advmod |
| 33 | connected | connect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 object | acl:relcl |
| 34 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 37 exist | punct |
| 35 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 exist | aux |
| 36 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 exist | advmod |
| 37 | exist | exist | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 19 death | parataxis |
| 38 | within | within | ADP | _ | 40 body | case |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 body | nmod:poss |
| 40 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 exist | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not kill | can · passive | Baldur | like Baldur; except one substance; sometimes property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | that | the object | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | connect | present · passive | Baldur's life | with the object; indissolubly property | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with which=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | not exist | present · do-support | within Baldur's body | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | die in a quote | Baldur | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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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