Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 34
And Finnian, with his blood again running chill and his scalp crawling uneasily, stared backwards with him.
Who acts: blood, scalp, Finnian · What happens: run, crawl, stare · To what, where: chill
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.
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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 stared | cc |
| 2 | Finnian | Finnian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 stared | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 blood | punct |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 blood | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 blood | nmod:poss |
| 6 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Finnian | appos |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 blood | advmod |
| 8 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 blood | acl |
| 9 | chill | chill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 running | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 scalp | cc |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 scalp | nmod:poss |
| 12 | scalp | scalp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 chill | conj |
| 13 | crawling | crawl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 scalp | acl |
| 14 | uneasily | uneasily | ADV | _ | 13 crawling | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Finnian | punct |
| 16 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | backwards | backwards | ADV | _ | 16 stared | advmod |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 stared | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 stared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | 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 |
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: «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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/5/34/