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title: I can scarcely believe it possible you can have a cat so well traine… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: I can scarcely believe it possible you can have a cat so well trained as to be able to carry in a lantern. Who acts: I, you. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 113

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I can scarcely believe it possible you can have a cat so well trained as to be able to carry in a lantern.

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**Who acts:** I, you · **What happens:** believe, have, train, be, carry · **To what, where:** wager, cat, lantern

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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:pg75000:7:113
# text = I can scarcely believe it possible you can have a cat so well trained as to be able to carry in a lantern.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
14	trained	train	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
18	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	lantern	lantern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** | can | I | wager |  |  |  | possible, scarcely *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 2 | **have** | can | you | a cat |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Patient |
| 3 | **train** | participle | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **carry** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | a lantern |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in lantern=Location |

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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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