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title: At this Oonagh set up a loud laugh, of great contempt, by-the-way, a… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At this Oonagh set up a loud laugh, of great contempt, by-the-way, and looked at him as if he was only a mere handful of a man. Who acts: Oonagh, husband. 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 75

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At this Oonagh set up a loud laugh, of great contempt, by-the-way, and looked at him as if he was only a mere handful of a man.

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**Who acts:** Oonagh, husband · **What happens:** set up, look, be · **To what, where:** loud laugh, mere handful

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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 (Oonagh, husband), 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:pg7885:22:75
# text = At this Oonagh set up a loud laugh, of great contempt, by-the-way, and looked at him as if he was only a mere handful of a man.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	Oonagh	Oonagh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	laugh	laugh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	contempt	contempt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
25	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
28	only	only	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	mere	mere	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	handful	handful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	advcl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set up** | past | this Oonagh | a loud laugh |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient laugh=Result |
| 2 | **look** | past |  |  |  |  |  | at husband | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past | husband | a mere handful |  |  |  | of a man | 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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