--- title: "You'd better not," said Patrick, and he gave him a cock of his eye,… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: "You'd better not," said Patrick, and he gave him a cock of his eye, and a grin of his teeth, that just sent a shiver down Andrew Coffey's back. Who acts: Patrick, grin, teeth. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, "andrew Coffey! Andrew Coffey! It's Burning Me Ye Are.", with its depe --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/28/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Celtic Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/) / ["andrew Coffey! Andrew Coffey! It's Bu…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/28/) / 2 # Celtic Fairy Tales, "andrew Coffey! Andrew Coffey! It's Burning Me Ye Are.", sentence 2 "You'd better not," said Patrick, and he gave him a cock of his eye, and a grin of his teeth, that just sent a shiver down Andrew Coffey's back. **Who acts:** Patrick, grin, teeth · **What happens:** say, give, send, grin · **To what, where:** cock, grandfather, that · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, "andrew Coffey! Andrew Coffey! It's Burning Me Ye Are.". The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Patrick, grin, teeth), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7885:28:2 # text = "You'd better not," said Patrick, and he gave him a cock of his eye, and a grin of his teeth, that just sent a shiver down Andrew Coffey's back. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 better well ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 8 advmod _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 8 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 Patrick Patrick PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 14 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 iobj _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 cock cock NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 grin grin NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 obj _ _ 29 just just ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 shiver shiver NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 down down ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 34 Andrew Andrew PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nmod:poss _ _ 35 Coffey Coffey PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 36 's 's PART POS _ 34 case _ _ 37 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Patrick | | | | | well *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **give** | past | Patrick | a cock of grandfather's eye | grandfather | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient cock=Theme | | 3 | **send** | past | a grin of grandfather's teeth | that | | | | down Andrew's back | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent that=Destination shiver=Theme | | 4 | **grin** | | grandfather's teeth | | | | | | nom grin «communication intransitive»: of=agent | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/28/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/28/3/) - ↑ back to ["andrew Coffey! 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