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description: The evil spirits are almost always duped and defeated, and that result is generally due to their remarkable want of intelligence. Who acts: result. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 68

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The evil spirits are almost always duped and defeated, and that result is generally due to their remarkable want of intelligence.

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**Who acts:** result · **What happens:** dupe, defeat, be · **To what, where:** evil spirits

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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 (result), 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:pg22373:61:68
# text = The evil spirits are almost always duped and defeated, and that result is generally due to their remarkable want of intelligence.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
5	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	7	advmod	_	_
7	duped	dupe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	defeated	defeat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
12	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	result	result	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
15	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
16	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	20	case	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	want	want	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	intelligence	intelligence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dupe** | present · passive |  | the evil spirits |  |  |  | almost, always *property* | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **defeat** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | that result |  |  |  |  | due spirits's remarkable want; of intelligence; generally *property* | tree rules |

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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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