--- title: Sometimes, like Baldur, he cannot be killed except by one substance;… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: 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. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chap --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/21/105/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / [Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/21/) / 105 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg22373:21:105 # text = 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. 1 Sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 10 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 like like ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Baldur Baldur PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 7 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 8 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 9 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 killed kill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 11 except except ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 by by ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 substance substance NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 16 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 19 advmod _ _ 17 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 -- -- PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 26 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 object object NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 appos _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 33 obl _ _ 29 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj:pass _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux:pass _ _ 32 indissolubly indissolubly ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 connected connect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 -- -- PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 36 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 37 advmod _ _ 37 exist exist VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 19 parataxis _ _ 38 within within ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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. - ← previous: [sentence 104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/21/104/) - next →: [sentence 106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/21/106/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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