More English Fairy Tales, LXI. the Blinded Giant, sentence 10

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 · What happens: bar, blind, slaughter, be, not arise · To what, where: series, incidents

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.

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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 giant	det
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 eyed	nummod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 one	punct
4	eyed	eyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 giant	amod
5	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 series	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 door	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 door	det
8	barred	bar	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 door	amod
9	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 giant	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 escape	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 escape	det
12	escape	escape	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 giant	conj
13	through	through	ADP	_	18 legs	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 giant	det
15	blinded	blind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 giant	amod
16	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 legs	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 giant	case
18	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 escape	nmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 skin	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 skin	det
21	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 legs	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 animal	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 animal	det
24	slaughtered	slaughter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 animal	amod
25	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 skin	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 giant	punct
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 series	cop
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 series	det
29	series	series	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 incidents	case
31	incidents	incident	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 series	nmod
32	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 arisen	obj
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 arisen	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 arisen	advmod
35	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 arisen	aux
36	arisen	arise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 incidents	acl:relcl
37	independently	independently	ADV	_	36 arisen	advmod
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 casually	cc
39	casually	casually	ADV	_	37 independently	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 series	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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

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: «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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