Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 68

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

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

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.

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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 spirits	det
2	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 spirits	amod
3	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 duped	nsubj:pass
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 duped	aux:pass
5	almost	almost	ADV	_	7 duped	advmod
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 duped	advmod
7	duped	dupe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 defeated	cc
9	defeated	defeat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 duped	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 want	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 want	cc
12	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 result	det
13	result	result	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 want	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 want	cop
15	generally	generally	ADV	_	20 want	advmod
16	due	due	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	20 want	case
17	to	to	ADP	_	16 due	fixed
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 want	nmod:poss
19	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 want	amod
20	want	want	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 duped	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 intelligence	case
22	intelligence	intelligence	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 want	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 duped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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

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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