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description: But, acting on the instructions he has received from the boy, Vanka will take nothing but the greybeard's lute, the sounds of which exercise a magic power over all living creatures. Who acts: Vanka, boy, sounds. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 99

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But, acting on the instructions he has received from the boy, Vanka will take nothing but the greybeard's lute, the sounds of which exercise a magic power over all living creatures.

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**Who acts:** Vanka, boy, sounds · **What happens:** act, receive, take, exercise, live · **To what, where:** instructions, nothing, magic power, living creatures

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vanka, boy, sounds), 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:pg22373:61:99
# text = But, acting on the instructions he has received from the boy, Vanka will take nothing but the greybeard's lute, the sounds of which exercise a magic power over all living creatures.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	acting	act	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	instructions	instruction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	received	receive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
14	Vanka	Vanka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
17	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	16	obj	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	greybeard	greybeard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	lute	lute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	exercise	exercise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	over	over	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	det	_	_
34	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	35	amod	_	_
35	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **act** | gerund | Vanka *not said here* |  |  | the instructions |  |  | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on instruction=Eventuality |
| 2 | **receive** | present · perfect | boy | the instructions *not said here* |  |  |  | from the boy | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent instruction=Theme from boy=Source |
| 3 | **take** | future | Vanka | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme |
| 4 | **exercise** | present | the sounds | a magic power |  | all living creatures |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient |
| 5 | **live** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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