Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache, sentence 12

You look like you'd been through the mill."

Who acts: You · What happens: look, be · To what, where: mill

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 look	nsubj
2	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	SCONJ	_	9 mill	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 mill	nsubj
5	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 mill	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 mill	cop
7	through	through	ADP	_	9 mill	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mill	det
9	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 look	advcl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 look	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	You						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	is	past · perfect	you			the mill			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: «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Project Gutenberg book 2306 (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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