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

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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.

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

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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.

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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:pg22373:33:142
# text = 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.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	representation	representation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
8	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	altered	alter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
20	Waelcyrie	Waelcyrie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	Swan	Swan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
27	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	Nibelungen	Nibelungen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	Lied	Lied	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	relates	relate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Brynhild	Brynhild	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	flashing	flash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	41	amod	_	_
41	shield	shield	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	Edda	Edda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
48	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	51	nsubj	_	_
49	with	with	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	virginity	virginity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	appos	_	_
52	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
53	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	acl:relcl	_	_
54	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
55	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obj	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
58	warlike	warlike	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
59	habits	habit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	51	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	51	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	65	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	Kemble	Kemble	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	65	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	's	's	PART	POS	_	63	case	_	_
65	Beowulf	Beowulf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	68	punct	_	_
67	p.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	68	compound	_	_
68	xxxv	xxxv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	65	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | 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 |

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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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