Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 99

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 · What happens: act, receive, take, exercise, live · To what, where: instructions, nothing, magic power, living creatures

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.

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	But	but	CCONJ	_	16 take	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 acting	punct
3	acting	act	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 take	advcl
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 instructions	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 instructions	det
6	instructions	instruction	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 acting	obl
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 received	nsubj
8	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 received	aux
9	received	receive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 instructions	acl:relcl
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 boy	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 boy	det
12	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 received	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 acting	punct
14	Vanka	Vanka	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 take	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 take	aux
16	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
17	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	16 take	obj
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 lute	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 greybeard	det
20	greybeard	greybeard	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lute	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 greybeard	case
22	lute	lute	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 nothing	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sounds	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 sounds	det
25	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 nothing	conj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 which	case
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 exercise	nsubj
28	exercise	exercise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 sounds	acl:relcl
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 power	det
30	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 power	compound
31	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 exercise	obj
32	over	over	ADP	_	35 creatures	case
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 creatures	det
34	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 creatures	amod
35	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 exercise	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	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

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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