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title: But it is difficult to keep the thoughts together in everything; one… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But it is difficult to keep the thoughts together in everything; one little mistake upsets all our arrangements. Who acts: one little mistake, our. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, with its dependency tree and
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 54

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But it is difficult to keep the thoughts together in everything; one little mistake upsets all our arrangements.

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**Who acts:** one little mistake, our · **What happens:** be, keep, upset, arrange · **To what, where:** thoughts, everything, arrangements

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one little mistake, our), 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:pg27200:172:54
# text = But it is difficult to keep the thoughts together in everything; one little mistake upsets all our arrangements.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	expl	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	difficult	difficult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	csubj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	together	together	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	upsets	upset	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
17	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	19	det:predet	_	_
18	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	arrangements	arrangement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | difficult *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | to-infinitive |  | the thoughts |  | everything |  | together *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent thought=Theme in everything=Location |
| 3 | **upset** | present | one little mistake | our arrangements |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus arrangement=Experiencer |
| 4 | **arrange** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom arrangement «cognition 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:** «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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