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title: Mr. Nutt's lucky find at the last moment seems to throw more light o… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Macleod. Campbell. Sinclair. Curtin., with its dependency tree and th
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# More English Fairy Tales, Macleod. Campbell. Sinclair. Curtin., sentence 68

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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.

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

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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.

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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:pg14241:66:68
# text = 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.
1	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Nutt	Nutt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	lucky	lucky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	find	find	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	amod	_	_
14	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	origin	origin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	advcl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	remaining	remain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	amod	_	_
28	collection	collection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | 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 |

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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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