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title: At dinner every one laughed but the foxy fellow; and sure enough he… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At dinner every one laughed but the foxy fellow; and sure enough he was laying out how he'd settle poor Tom next day. Who acts: one, sure, fellow, Tom. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Lad With the Goat-skin, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 60

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At dinner every one laughed but the foxy fellow; and sure enough he was laying out how he'd settle poor Tom next day.

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**Who acts:** one, sure, fellow, Tom · **What happens:** laugh, lay out, settle, day · **To what, where:** dinner

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Lad With the Goat-skin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, sure, fellow, Tom), 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:pg7885:33:60
# text = At dinner every one laughed but the foxy fellow; and sure enough he was laying out how he'd settle poor Tom next day.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	foxy	foxy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	nsubj	_	_
13	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	laying	lay	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	advcl	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	settle	settle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
22	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
23	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | past | every one |  |  | dinner |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **lay out** | past · progressive | sure |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **settle** | would | fellow |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **day** |  | Tom |  |  |  |  |  | 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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