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description: If you will wait for a few months until next autumn you will find that I shall be twice as fat as I am now and will make you a much better feast.” Who acts: you, I. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Kyang, the Fox, the Wolf and the Hare., with its 
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Kyang, the Fox, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 5

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If you will wait for a few months until next autumn you will find that I shall be twice as fat as I am now and will make you a much better feast.”

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** wait, find, be, make · **To what, where:** better feast, you · **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 Kyang, the Fox, the Wolf and the Hare.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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:pg75000:8:5
# text = If you will wait for a few months until next autumn you will find that I shall be twice as fat as I am now and will make you a much better feast.”
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	until	until	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
17	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
19	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	21	advmod	_	_
20	as	as	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	ccomp	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advcl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	much	much	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	33	amod	_	_
33	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | future | you |  |  |  | month |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | future | you |  |  |  | autumn |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | shall | I |  |  |  |  | fat, twice *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | now *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **make** | future | you *not said here* | a better feast | you |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset you=Beneficiary feast=Product |

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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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