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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 69

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For they display in their dealings with their human antagonists a deficiency of intellectual power which almost amounts to imbecility.

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**Who acts:** spirits, intellectual power · **What happens:** display, amount, deal · **To what, where:** deficiency, dealings

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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 (spirits, intellectual 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:pg22373:61:69
# text = For they display in their dealings with their human antagonists a deficiency of intellectual power which almost amounts to imbecility.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	display	display	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	dealings	dealing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	antagonists	antagonist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	deficiency	deficiency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	intellectual	intellectual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	amounts	amount	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	imbecility	imbecility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **display** | present | spirits *= spirit* | a deficiency of intellectual power and amounts |  | spirits's dealings with spirits's human antagonists |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deficiency=Theme |
| 2 | **amount** |  | intellectual power and amounts |  |  |  |  | to imbecility; almost *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **deal** |  | spirits *= spirit* |  |  |  |  | with spirits's human antagonists | nom dealing «act intransitive»: poss=agent with=obl |

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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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