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title: "andrew Coffey! Andrew Coffey!" — Celtic Fairy Tales · full text with trees
description: "andrew Coffey! Andrew Coffey!", «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: It's hard for a man to jump when he has been through all my grandfather had, but jump he did.
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# "andrew Coffey! Andrew Coffey!"

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"andrew Coffey! Andrew Coffey!" of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 8 sentences and 142 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself.

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- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/30/1/) — It's hard for a man to jump when he has been through all my grandfather had, but jump he did.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/30/2/) — And when he looked around, where should he find himself but in the very cabin he had first met Patrick in.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/30/3/) — "Andrew Coffey, Andrew Coffey, tell me a story."
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/30/4/) — "Is it a story you want?" said my grandfather as bold as may be, for he was just tired of being frightened. "
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/30/5/) — Well if you can tell me the rights of this one, I'll be thankful."
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/30/6/) — And he told the tale of what had befallen him from first to last that night.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/30/7/) — The tale was long, and may be Andrew Coffey was weary.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/30/8/) — It's asleep he must have fallen, for when he awoke he lay on the hill-side under the open heavens, and his horse grazed at his side.

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