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title: We might just as well have kept the old year; I'm quite unhappy, and… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 13

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

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

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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.

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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:pg27200:214:13
# text = We might just as well have kept the old year; I'm quite unhappy, and I have a right to be so."
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
4	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	7	cc	_	_
5	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	fixed	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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:** «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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