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title: I have neither extenuated nor added aught but the last sentence of t… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I have neither extenuated nor added aught but the last sentence of the Fairy Maiden's last speech. Who acts: I, Fairy Maiden. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, I. Connla and the Fairy Maiden., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, I. Connla and the Fairy Maiden., sentence 12

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I have neither extenuated nor added aught but the last sentence of the Fairy Maiden's last speech.

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**Who acts:** I, Fairy Maiden · **What happens:** extenuate, add, sentence, speak · **To what, where:** aught, last speech · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, I. Connla and the Fairy Maiden.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Fairy Maiden), 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:pg7885:35:12
# text = I have neither extenuated nor added aught but the last sentence of the Fairy Maiden's last speech.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	extenuated	extenuate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	6	cc	_	_
6	added	add	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
7	aught	aught	PRON	NN	PronType=Ind	6	obj	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	sentence	sentence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **extenuate** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | neither *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | participle | I *not said here* | aught |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aught=Patient |
| 3 | **sentence** |  |  | the Fairy Maiden's last speech |  |  |  |  | nom sentence «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **speak** |  | the Fairy Maiden |  |  |  |  |  | nom speech «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:** «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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