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title: If you care to come along with us too we shall be very glad, and I t… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: If you care to come along with us too we shall be very glad, and I think we can promise you some better refreshment than that old Horse you are devouring here. Who acts: you, we, I. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of How the Hare Made a Foo
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 63

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If you care to come along with us too we shall be very glad, and I think we can promise you some better refreshment than that old Horse you are devouring here.

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**Who acts:** you, we, I · **What happens:** care, come along, be, think, promise, devour · **To what, where:** better refreshment, you, old Horse · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75000:12:63
# text = If you care to come along with us too we shall be very glad, and I think we can promise you some better refreshment than that old Horse you are devouring here.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	care	care	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	along	along	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
9	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
10	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
11	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
13	very	very	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
19	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	promise	promise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	iobj	_	_
23	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	det	_	_
24	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	amod	_	_
25	refreshment	refreshment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
26	than	than	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
28	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	Horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	devouring	devour	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	acl:relcl	_	_
33	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **care** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **come along** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with us; along *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | shall | we |  |  |  |  | glad *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **promise** *speech: promise* | can | we | some better refreshment | you |  |  | than that old Horse | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent you=Goal refreshment=Theme |
| 6 | **devour** | present · progressive | you | that old Horse *not said here* |  | here |  |  | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient |

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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.

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**Text:** «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Project Gutenberg book 75000 (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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