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title: And Finnian, with his blood again running chill and his scalp crawli… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And Finnian, with his blood again running chill and his scalp crawling uneasily, stared backwards with him. Who acts: blood, scalp, Finnian. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 34

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And Finnian, with his blood again running chill and his scalp crawling uneasily, stared backwards with him.

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**Who acts:** blood, scalp, Finnian · **What happens:** run, crawl, stare · **To what, where:** chill

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blood, scalp, Finnian), 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:pg2892:5:34
# text = And Finnian, with his blood again running chill and his scalp crawling uneasily, stared backwards with him.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
2	Finnian	Finnian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
9	chill	chill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	scalp	scalp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	crawling	crawl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	acl	_	_
14	uneasily	uneasily	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
16	stared	stare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	backwards	backwards	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | gerund | Finnian's blood *not said here* | chill and Finnian's scalp |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme chill=Trajectory |
| 2 | **crawl** | gerund | Finnian's scalp *not said here* |  |  |  |  | uneasily *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **stare** | past | Finnian |  |  |  |  | with Tuan; backwards *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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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:** «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (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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