Indian Fairy Tales, XX. the Ass in the Lion's Skin., sentence 19

Rhys-Davids remarks, the Indian form gives a plausible motive for the masquerade which is wanting in the ordinary Æsopic version.

Who acts: Rhys, masquerade · What happens: give, want · To what, where: plausible motive, ordinary Æsopic version

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XX. the Ass in the Lion's Skin.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rhys, masquerade), 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	Rhys	Rhys	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 gives	nsubj
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Rhys	punct
3	Davids	david	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 remarks	compound
4	remarks	remark	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Rhys	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gives	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 form	det
7	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 form	amod
8	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gives	nsubj
9	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 motive	det
11	plausible	plausible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 motive	amod
12	motive	motive	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gives	obj
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 masquerade	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 masquerade	det
15	masquerade	masquerade	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 motive	nmod
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 wanting	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 wanting	aux
18	wanting	want	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 masquerade	acl:relcl
19	in	in	ADP	_	23 version	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 version	det
21	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 version	amod
22	Æsopic	Æsopic	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 version	compound
23	version	version	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wanting	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 gives	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	Rhys and Davids remarks	a plausible motive				for the masquerade	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent motive=Theme for masquerade=Asset
2	want	present · progressive	the masquerade			the ordinary Æsopic version			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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