Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, X. the Godmother, sentence 41

"He looks something like a flour-sack without any flour," said the miller, laughing at his own wit.

Who acts: Chillon, miller · What happens: look, say, laugh · To what, where: something, own wit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, X. the Godmother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Chillon, miller), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 looks	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 looks	nsubj
3	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 looks	obj
5	like	like	ADP	_	9 sack	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 sack	det
7	flour	flour	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sack	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 flour	punct
9	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 something	nmod
10	without	without	ADP	_	12 flour	case
11	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	12 flour	det
12	flour	flour	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sack	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 looks	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 looks	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looks	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 miller	det
17	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 laughing	punct
19	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 said	advcl
20	at	at	ADP	_	23 wit	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 wit	nmod:poss
22	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 wit	amod
23	wit	wit	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 laughing	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looks	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look in a quote	present	Chillon	something		like a flour sack without any flour	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme something=Attribute
2	say speech: assert	past	the miller				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	laugh	gerund	the miller not said here		Chillon's own wit		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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