Free Tibet‘Free Tibet!’, exhorts the man waving the placard. However, the lady (assuming she isn’t trying to be funny) misinterprets the message, and believes she is on to a good thing.

The humour of this cartoon derives from the fact that the intended message has the structure V+O (free being a transitive, imperative verb and Tibet, the object), whereas the lady misconstrues free Tibet as a noun phrase (NP), with head noun Tibet and free as a premodifying adjective.