More English Fairy Tales, LXIII. the Pedlar of Swaffham, sentence 19

Cowell suggests that it was possibly adapted at the latter place to account for the effigy of the pedlar and his dog.

Who acts: Cowell · What happens: suggest, adapt · To what, where: Prof, latter place

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXIII. the Pedlar of Swaffham. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cowell), 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	Cowell	Cowell	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 suggests	nsubj
2	suggests	suggest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 adapted	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 adapted	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 adapted	aux:pass
6	possibly	possibly	ADV	_	7 adapted	advmod
7	adapted	adapt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 suggests	advcl
8	at	at	ADP	_	11 place	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 place	det
10	latter	latter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 place	amod
11	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 adapted	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 account	mark
13	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 place	acl
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 effigy	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 effigy	det
16	effigy	effigy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 adapted	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 pedlar	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 pedlar	det
19	pedlar	pedlar	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 effigy	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 dog	cc
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 dog	nmod:poss
22	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pedlar	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 suggests	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suggest speech: suggest	present	Cowell						vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	adapt	past · passive		Prof		the latter place		for the effigy of the pedlar and Cowell's dog; possibly property	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: subject=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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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