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title: I will bet you that when night falls a lantern will be carried into… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: I will bet you that when night falls a lantern will be carried into this room by a cat instead of by a servant.” Who acts: I, night, cat. 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 prag
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 99

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I will bet you that when night falls a lantern will be carried into this room by a cat instead of by a servant.”

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**Who acts:** I, night, cat · **What happens:** bet, fall, carry · **To what, where:** you, lantern, room

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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, night, 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:pg75000:7:99
# text = I will bet you that when night falls a lantern will be carried into this room by a cat instead of by a servant.”
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	bet	bet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
6	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	8	mark	_	_
7	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	lantern	lantern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	24	case	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	fixed	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bet** | future | I |  | you |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 2 | **fall** | present | night | a lantern |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient lantern=Result |
| 3 | **carry** | future · passive | a cat |  |  | this room |  | instead a servant | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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