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title: The one-eyed giant, the barred door, the escape through the blinded… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The one-eyed giant, the barred door, the escape through the blinded giant's legs in the skin of a slaughtered animal, are a series of incidents that could not have arisen independently and casually. Who acts: eyed giant. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXI. the Blinded Gia
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXI. the Blinded Giant, sentence 10

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The one-eyed giant, the barred door, the escape through the blinded giant's legs in the skin of a slaughtered animal, are a series of incidents that could not have arisen independently and casually.

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**Who acts:** eyed giant · **What happens:** bar, blind, slaughter, be, not arise · **To what, where:** series, incidents

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXI. the Blinded Giant. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyed giant), 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:pg14241:52:10
# text = The one-eyed giant, the barred door, the escape through the blinded giant's legs in the skin of a slaughtered animal, are a series of incidents that could not have arisen independently and casually.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	eyed	eyed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	barred	bar	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	escape	escape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
13	through	through	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	blinded	blind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	slaughtered	slaughter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	amod	_	_
25	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
27	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	series	series	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	incidents	incident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	_
32	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	obj	_	_
33	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
34	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
35	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	aux	_	_
36	arisen	arise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	acl:relcl	_	_
37	independently	independently	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	casually	casually	ADV	RB	_	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bar** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer |
| 2 | **blind** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **slaughter** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | present | the eyed giant and the barred door and the escape through the blinded giant's legs in the skin of a slaughtered animal | a series |  |  |  | of incidents | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **arise** | could · perfect |  | incidents |  |  |  | independently *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location that=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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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