The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 83

Every year you must bring me from among your people twelve youths and twelve maidens, that I may devour them.

Who acts: you, I · What happens: bring, devour · To what, where: me, people

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, 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 year	det
2	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bring	obl:unmarked
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 bring	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 bring	aux
5	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 bring	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	10 people	case
8	among	among	ADP	_	10 people	case
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 people	nmod:poss
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bring	obl
11	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 youths	nummod
12	youths	youth	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 people	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 maidens	cc
14	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 maidens	nummod
15	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 people	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 devour	punct
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 devour	mark
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 devour	nsubj
19	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 devour	aux
20	devour	devour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 bring	conj
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 devour	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 bring	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	must	you	me			year	from your people and twelve youths and twelve maidens	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent i=Theme from people=Initial_Location
2	devour	may	I	people					vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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