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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 39

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In two Sanskrit versions of the "Vetalapanchavinsati,"\[302\] as well as in the Hindi version,\[303\] the life-giving charm consists in a spell taken from a book of magic.

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**Who acts:** giving charm · **What happens:** give, consist, take · **To what, where:** Hindi version, spell, book

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., 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 (giving charm), 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:pg22373:42:39
# text = In two Sanskrit versions of the "Vetalapanchavinsati,"[302] as well as in the Hindi version,[303] the life-giving charm consists in a spell taken from a book of magic.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	Sanskrit	Sanskrit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	versions	version	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Vetalapanchavinsati	Vetalapanchavinsati	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	302	302	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
14	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	20	cc	_	_
15	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	fixed	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Hindi	Hindi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	303	303	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
26	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	giving	give	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	amod	_	_
29	charm	charm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	consists	consist	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	spell	spell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl	_	_
35	from	from	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **consist** | present | the giving charm | the Hindi version *not said here* |  | a spell |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | participle |  | a spell *not said here* |  | a book of magic |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent from book=Initial\_Location |

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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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