The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 38

I know there will be difficulties in our path, but we will face them together.’

Who acts: I, difficulties, we · What happens: know, be, face · To what, where: difficulties · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, difficulties, we), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 know	nsubj
2	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 be	expl
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 be	aux
5	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 know	ccomp
6	difficulties	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 be	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 path	case
8	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 path	nmod:poss
9	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 difficulties	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 face	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 face	cc
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 face	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 face	aux
14	face	face	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 know	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 face	obj
16	together	together	ADV	_	14 face	advmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	present	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	be	future	difficulties in our path		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	face	future	we	difficulties = difficulty		together property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Destination

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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