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title: The Donkey Cabbage, part 3 — The Yellow Fairy Book · full text with trees · page 2
description: The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: But the maiden’s hand had hardly touched the dress when the palace suddenly awoke from its sleep, and the Prince was seized and bound.
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# The Donkey Cabbage, part 3 · page 2

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- [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/12/101/) — Whoever eats this apple shall have a child.’
- [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/12/102/) — (10) Convent Gnothi.
- [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/12/103/) — The Queen gave money to the old woman, and bought the apple from her. — checked by a teacher
- [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/12/104/) — Then she peeled it, ate it, and threw the rind out of the window, and it so happened that a mare that was running loose in the court below ate up the rind.
- [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/12/105/) — After a time the Queen had a little boy, and the mare also had a male foal.
- [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/12/106/) — The boy and the foal grew up together and loved each other like brothers.
- [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/12/107/) — In course of time the King died, and so did the Queen, and their son, who was now nineteen years old, was left alone.
- [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/12/108/) — One day, when he and his horse were talking together, the Horse said to him, ‘Listen to me, for I love you and wish for your good and that of the country.
- [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/12/109/) — 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.
- [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/12/110/) — Mount upon my back: I will take you to a woman who can direct you how to kill the Seven-headed Serpent.’

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