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

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.

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

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.

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	In	in	ADP	_	4 versions	case
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 versions	nummod
3	Sanskrit	Sanskrit	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 versions	compound
4	versions	version	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 Vetalapanchavinsati	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Vetalapanchavinsati	det
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 Vetalapanchavinsati	punct
8	Vetalapanchavinsati	Vetalapanchavinsati	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 versions	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 versions	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 302	punct
11	[	[	PUNCT	_	12 302	punct
12	302	302	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 versions	appos
13	]	]	PUNCT	_	12 302	punct
14	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	20 version	cc
15	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 as	fixed
16	as	as	ADP	_	14 as	fixed
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 version	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 version	det
19	Hindi	Hindi	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 version	compound
20	version	version	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 302	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 303	punct
22	[	[	PUNCT	_	23 303	punct
23	303	303	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	20 version	appos
24	]	]	PUNCT	_	23 303	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 charm	det
26	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 giving	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 life	punct
28	giving	give	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 charm	amod
29	charm	charm	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 consists	nsubj
30	consists	consist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 version	acl:relcl
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 spell	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 spell	det
33	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 consists	obl
34	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 spell	acl
35	from	from	ADP	_	37 book	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 book	det
37	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 taken	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 magic	case
39	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 book	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 302	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	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

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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