Predicate: snicker
Roleset id: snicker.01 , laugh in a covert manner, vncls: 40.2, framnet: Make_noise
snicker.01: Based on sentences in brown corpus. Framed by Neville. Comparison with 'laugh.' VerbNet class nonverbal_expression-40.2.
Roles:
Arg0: snickerer (vnrole: 40.2-agent)
Arg1: cognate object (vnrole: 40.2-theme)
Arg2: source of amusement (vnrole: 40.2-recipient, 40.2-cause)
Arg3: end state of Arg0, result of snickering
Example: intransitive (-)
person: ns, tense: ns, aspect: ns, voice: ns, form: ns
It spread to most of the audience and was often viewed [*-2] by visiting
whites who-1 [*T*-1] snickered behind handkerchief and afterward discussed Negro
religion .
Arg0: [*T*-1] (= who)
Argm-slc: who -> visiting whites
Rel: snickered
Argm-loc: behind handkerchief
Example: with source (-)
person: ns, tense: ns, aspect: ns, voice: ns, form: ns
L'Unita and Hoy published identical denunciations of Short 's elevation ,
l'Osservatore Romano and the Christian Science Monitor ignored it , Times of
India snickered at it , and the Manchester Guardian simply reported it -- the
Fosterites in England were few but extremely militant .
Arg0: Times of India
Rel: snickered
Arg2: at it