The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 43

“What right have you to be happy?

Who acts: you · What happens: have, be

This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 happy	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 have	obj
3	right	right	ADV	_	4 have	advmod
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 happy	advcl
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
6	to	to	PART	_	8 happy	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 happy	cop
8	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 happy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	you					right property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient
2	is in a quote	to-infinitive						happy property	tree rules

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: «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Project Gutenberg book 902 (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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