Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 13

We might just as well have kept the old year; I'm quite unhappy, and I have a right to be so."

Who acts: We, I · What happens: keep, be, have · To what, where: right

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, I), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 kept	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 kept	aux
3	just	just	ADV	_	7 kept	advmod
4	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	7 kept	cc
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 as	fixed
6	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 kept	aux
7	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 year	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 year	amod
10	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kept	obl:unmarked
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 unhappy	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 unhappy	nsubj
13	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 unhappy	cop
14	quite	quite	ADV	_	15 unhappy	advmod
15	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 kept	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 have	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 have	cc
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 have	nsubj
19	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 unhappy	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 right	det
21	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 have	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 be	mark
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 right	acl
24	so	so	ADV	_	23 be	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 unhappy	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 unhappy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	keep	might · perfect	We		year		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	I			unhappy property	tree rules
3	have	present	I	a right			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Patient

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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