The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 109
If you go on every year sending twelve youths and twelve maidens to the King of the Beasts, your country will very soon be ruined.
Who acts: you · What happens: go, send, ruin · To what, where: twelve youths, King, country
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 go | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 go | nsubj |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 ruined | advcl |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 year | case |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 year | det |
| 6 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | obl |
| 7 | sending | send | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 go | xcomp |
| 8 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 youths | nummod |
| 9 | youths | youth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sending | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 maidens | cc |
| 11 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 maidens | nummod |
| 12 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 youths | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 King | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 King | det |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 sending | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Beasts | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Beasts | det |
| 18 | Beasts | Beast | PROPN | Number=Plur | 15 King | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 country | nmod:poss |
| 21 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 ruined | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 ruined | aux |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 soon | advmod |
| 24 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 ruined | advmod |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 ruined | aux:pass |
| 26 | ruined | ruin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 ruined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go a condition, not said to happen | present | you | year | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | send | gerund | you not said here | twelve youths and twelve maidens | the King of the Beasts | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent youth=Theme to king=Destination | |||
| 3 | ruin | future · passive | your country | soon property | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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