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title: Meanwhile, Rambé and Ambé had warned the other Mice to be on the loo… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: Meanwhile, Rambé and Ambé had warned the other Mice to be on the lookout, and to be ready to take flight the moment the Cat showed any appearance of anger. Who acts: Cat. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Cat and the Mice., with its de
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Cat and the Mice., sentence 28

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Meanwhile, Rambé and Ambé had warned the other Mice to be on the lookout, and to be ready to take flight the moment the Cat showed any appearance of anger.

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**Who acts:** Cat · **What happens:** warn, be, take, show · **To what, where:** Rambé, other Mice, lookout, flight, appearance

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Cat and the Mice.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cat), 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:pg75000:6:28
# text = Meanwhile, Rambé and Ambé had warned the other Mice to be on the lookout, and to be ready to take flight the moment the Cat showed any appearance of anger.
1	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Rambé	Rambé	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	Ambé	Ambé	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	warned	warn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	lookout	lookout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
20	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
29	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	30	det	_	_
30	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **warn** *speech: warn* | past · perfect · passive |  | Rambé and Ambé | the other Mice |  |  | meanwhile *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the lookout |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** | to-infinitive |  | flight |  |  | moment |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flight=Theme |
| 5 | **show** | past | the Cat | any appearance of anger |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent appearance=Recipient |

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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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