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description: It feeds upon golden apples which have the power of bestowing youth and beauty, or according to a Croatian version, on magic-grasses. Who acts: notice, golden apples, power. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, with its depen
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 138

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It feeds upon golden apples which have the power of bestowing youth and beauty, or according to a Croatian version, on magic-grasses.

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**Who acts:** notice, golden apples, power · **What happens:** feed, have, bestow, accord · **To what, where:** power, youth

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (notice, golden apples, power), 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:pg22373:48:138
# text = It feeds upon golden apples which have the power of bestowing youth and beauty, or according to a Croatian version, on magic-grasses.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	feeds	feed	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	bestowing	bestow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
12	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	case	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Croatian	croatian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	grasses	grass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feed** | present | notice |  |  |  |  | upon golden apples; accord a Croatian version; on magic grasses | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on grass=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | present | golden apples | the power |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient |
| 3 | **bestow** | gerund | the power *not said here* | youth and beauty |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |

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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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