Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 75

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 · What happens: set up, look, be · To what, where: loud laugh, mere handful

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.

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	At	at	ADP	_	2 this	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 Oonagh	det
3	Oonagh	Oonagh	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 set	nsubj
4	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 set	compound:prt
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 laugh	det
7	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 laugh	amod
8	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 set	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 contempt	punct
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 contempt	case
11	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 contempt	amod
12	contempt	contempt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 set	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 way	punct
14	by	by	ADP	_	18 way	case
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 by	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 way	det
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 the	punct
18	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 contempt	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 looked	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 looked	cc
21	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 set	parataxis
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 looked	obl
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 handful	mark
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 handful	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 handful	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 handful	cop
28	only	only	ADV	_	31 handful	advmod
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 handful	det
30	mere	mere	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 handful	amod
31	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 looked	advcl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 man	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 man	det
34	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 handful	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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

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: «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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