The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 48

‘I was born a peasant, and strange bread is always bitter, so it is the same to me whom I serve!

Who acts: strange bread, bread, I · What happens: bear, be, serve · To what, where: I, me

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strange bread, bread, I), 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	_	4 born	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 born	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 born	aux:pass
4	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 peasant	det
6	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 born	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bitter	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 bitter	cc
9	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bread	amod
10	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bitter	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 bitter	cop
12	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	13 bitter	advmod
13	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 born	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 same	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	19 same	advmod
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 same	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 same	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 same	det
19	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bitter	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 me	case
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 same	obl
22	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 serve	obj
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 serve	nsubj
24	serve	serve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 bitter	conj
25	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 born	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	bear	past · passive		I			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary peasant=Patient
2	is	present	strange bread			always, bitter property	tree rules
3	is	present	bread		me	same property	tree rules
4	serve	present	I				vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Attribute

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/9/48/