Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 54

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

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

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.

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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 difficult	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 difficult	expl
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 difficult	cop
4	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 keep	mark
6	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 difficult	csubj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 thoughts	det
8	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 keep	obj
9	together	together	ADV	_	6 keep	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 everything	case
11	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 keep	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 upsets	punct
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 mistake	nummod
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 mistake	amod
15	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 upsets	nsubj
16	upsets	upset	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 difficult	parataxis
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 arrangements	det:predet
18	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 arrangements	nmod:poss
19	arrangements	arrangement	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 upsets	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 difficult	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	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

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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