More English Fairy Tales, Macleod. Campbell. Sinclair. Curtin., sentence 68

Mr. Nutt's lucky find at the last moment seems to throw more light on the origin of the tale than almost the whole of the remaining collection.

Who acts: lucky find, Nutt · What happens: seem, throw, remain, find · To what, where: more light, origin

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Macleod. Campbell. Sinclair. Curtin.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lucky find, Nutt), 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	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Nutt	nmod:desc
2	Nutt	Nutt	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 find	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Nutt	case
4	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 find	amod
5	find	find	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 seems	nsubj
6	at	at	ADP	_	9 moment	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 moment	det
8	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 moment	amod
9	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 find	nmod
10	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 throw	mark
12	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 seems	xcomp
13	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 light	amod
14	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 throw	obj
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 origin	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 origin	det
17	origin	origin	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 throw	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 tale	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 tale	det
20	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 origin	nmod
21	than	than	SCONJ	_	24 whole	mark
22	almost	almost	ADV	_	24 whole	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 whole	det
24	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 throw	advcl
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 collection	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 collection	det
27	remaining	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 collection	amod
28	collection	collection	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 whole	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 seems	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	seem	present	Nutt Mr.'s lucky find at the last moment				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	throw	to-infinitive	Nutt Mr.'s lucky find at the last moment not said here	more light	the origin of the tale		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent light=Theme on origin=Destination
3	remain	gerund					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	find		Nutt Mr.			at the last moment	nom find «cognition transitive»: poss=agent at=obl

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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