Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 142

Now this whole representation can hardly be other than the modern, altered, and Christian one of a Waelcyrie or Swan-Maiden; and almost in the same words the Nibelungen Lied relates of Brynhild, the flashing shield-may of the Edda, that with her virginity she lost her mighty strength and warlike habits."--Kemble's Beowulf, p. xxxv.

Who acts: whole representation, Nibelungen Lied, Lied · What happens: be, alter, relate, flash, lose · To what, where: flashing shield, same words, mighty strength

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whole representation, Nibelungen Lied, Lied), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 other	advmod
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 representation	det
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 representation	amod
4	representation	representation	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 other	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 other	aux
6	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	8 other	advmod
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 other	cop
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	than	than	ADP	_	11 modern	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 modern	det
11	modern	modern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 other	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 altered	punct
13	altered	alter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 modern	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 one	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 one	cc
16	Christian	Christian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 one	amod
17	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 altered	appos
18	of	of	ADP	_	24 Maiden	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 Maiden	det
20	Waelcyrie	Waelcyrie	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Maiden	compound
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 Swan	cc
22	Swan	Swan	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Waelcyrie	conj
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 Maiden	punct
24	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 one	nmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 relates	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 words	cc
27	almost	almost	ADV	_	31 words	advmod
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 words	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 words	det
30	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 words	amod
31	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 relates	obl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Lied	det
33	Nibelungen	Nibelungen	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Lied	compound
34	Lied	Lied	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 relates	nsubj
35	relates	relate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 other	parataxis
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 Brynhild	case
37	Brynhild	Brynhild	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 relates	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 shield	punct
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 shield	det
40	flashing	flash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	41 shield	amod
41	shield	shield	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 relates	obl
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 shield	punct
43	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 Edda	aux
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 Edda	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 Edda	det
46	Edda	Edda	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 shield	nmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 virginity	punct
48	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	51 virginity	nsubj
49	with	with	ADP	_	51 virginity	case
50	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 virginity	nmod:poss
51	virginity	virginity	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 Edda	appos
52	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 lost	nsubj
53	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 virginity	acl:relcl
54	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 strength	nmod:poss
55	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 strength	amod
56	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 lost	obj
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 habits	cc
58	warlike	warlike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 habits	amod
59	habits	habit	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 strength	conj
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	51 virginity	punct
61	"	"	PUNCT	_	51 virginity	punct
62	--	--	PUNCT	_	65 Beowulf	punct
63	Kemble	Kemble	PROPN	Number=Sing	65 Beowulf	nmod:poss
64	's	's	PART	_	63 Kemble	case
65	Beowulf	Beowulf	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 Edda	conj
66	,	,	PUNCT	_	68 xxxv	punct
67	p.	P.	PROPN	Number=Sing	68 xxxv	compound
68	xxxv	xxxv	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 Beowulf	appos
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 other	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	can	this whole representation		now	than the modern; hardly, other property	tree rules
2	alter	participle	this whole representation not said here				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	relate	present	the Nibelungen Lied	the flashing shield of the Edda and Kemble's Beowulf		in the same words goal; of Brynhild	vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent in word=Goal
4	flash	gerund					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	lose	past	Lied	Lied's mighty strength and warlike habits			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Eventuality

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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