Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 51

We may perhaps be allowed to designate them by the well-known name of Swan-Maidens, though they do not always assume, together with their plumage-robes, the form of swans, but sometimes appear as geese, ducks, spoonbills, or aquatic birds of some other species.

Who acts: We, maidens · What happens: allow, designate, know, not assume, appear, name · To what, where: We, maidens, aquatic birds, Swan Maidens, swans

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, maidens), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 allowed	nsubj:pass
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 allowed	aux
3	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	5 allowed	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 allowed	aux:pass
5	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 designate	mark
7	designate	designate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 allowed	xcomp
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 designate	obj
9	by	by	ADP	_	14 name	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 name	det
11	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 known	advmod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 well	punct
13	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 name	amod
14	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 designate	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 Maidens	case
16	Swan	Swan	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Maidens	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 Swan	punct
18	Maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 name	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 assume	punct
20	though	though	SCONJ	_	25 assume	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 assume	nsubj
22	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 assume	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 assume	advmod
24	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	25 assume	advmod
25	assume	assume	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 designate	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 together	punct
27	together	together	ADV	_	25 assume	advmod
28	with	with	ADP	_	32 robes	case
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 robes	nmod:poss
30	plumage	plumage	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 robes	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 plumage	punct
32	robes	robe	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 assume	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 form	punct
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 form	det
35	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 robes	appos
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 swans	case
37	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 form	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 appear	punct
39	but	but	CCONJ	_	41 appear	cc
40	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	41 appear	advmod
41	appear	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 allowed	conj
42	as	as	ADP	_	43 geese	case
43	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 appear	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 ducks	punct
45	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 geese	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 spoonbills	punct
47	spoonbills	spoonbill	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 geese	conj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 birds	punct
49	or	or	CCONJ	_	51 birds	cc
50	aquatic	aquatic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 birds	amod
51	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 appear	obl
52	of	of	ADP	_	55 species	case
53	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	55 species	det
54	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 species	amod
55	species	species	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 birds	nmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 allowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	allow	may · passive		We	perhaps property	vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	designate not said to happen	to-infinitive	We not said here	maidens = maiden	by the known name of Swan Maidens	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	know	participle			well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	not assume	present · do-support	maidens = maiden		with maidens's plumage robes; always, together property	vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	appear	present		aquatic birds of some other species	as geese and ducks and spoonbills; sometimes property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	name			Swan Maidens		nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient
7	form			swans		nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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