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title: "Thunder an' ounds!" exclaimed the other, "what a voice in so small… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Thunder an' ounds!" exclaimed the other, "what a voice in so small a chap!" Who acts: Thunder. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, A Legend of Knockmany, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 110

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"Thunder an' ounds!" exclaimed the other, "what a voice in so small a chap!"

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**Who acts:** Thunder · **What happens:** exclaim · **To what, where:** other

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, A Legend of Knockmany. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thunder), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7885:22:110
# text = "Thunder an' ounds!" exclaimed the other, "what a voice in so small a chap!"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	ounds	ound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
8	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	parataxis	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obl	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	chap	chap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | Thunder and a ounds | the other |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**Text:** «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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