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title: And with that what did my grandfather see, but Patrick unslinging hi… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And with that what did my grandfather see, but Patrick unslinging himself from the spit and his eyes glared and his teeth glistened. Who acts: grandfather, Patrick. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, "andrew Coffey, Andrew Coffey, It's the Death of You I'll Be.", with its dependenc
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, "andrew Coffey, Andrew Coffey, It's the Death of You I'll Be.", sentence 1

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And with that what did my grandfather see, but Patrick unslinging himself from the spit and his eyes glared and his teeth glistened.

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**Who acts:** grandfather, Patrick · **What happens:** see, unsling, glare, glisten · **To what, where:** grandfather, spit

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, "andrew Coffey, Andrew Coffey, It's the Death of You I'll Be.". The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grandfather, Patrick), 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:pg7885:29:1
# text = And with that what did my grandfather see, but Patrick unslinging himself from the spit and his eyes glared and his teeth glistened.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	obl	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
11	Patrick	Patrick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
12	unslinging	unsling	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	spit	spit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
20	glared	glare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
24	glistened	glisten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past · do-support | my grandfather |  |  |  |  | with that | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
| 2 | **unsling** | gerund | Patrick and grandfather's eyes *not said here* | grandfather |  | the spit |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **glare** | past | Patrick and grandfather's eyes |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **glisten** | participle | Patrick and grandfather's eyes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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