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title: But the Beetle buzzed about Jupiter's head, and made him rise to dri… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: But the Beetle buzzed about Jupiter's head, and made him rise to drive her away; and the eggs rolled from his lap. Who acts: Beetle, Jupiter, eggs. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Eagle and the Beetle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Eagle and the Beetle, sentence 9

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But the Beetle buzzed about Jupiter's head, and made him rise to drive her away; and the eggs rolled from his lap.

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**Who acts:** Beetle, Jupiter, eggs · **What happens:** buzz, make, rise, drive away, roll · **To what, where:** Jupiter, Beetle, lap

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Eagle and the Beetle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Beetle, Jupiter, eggs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg19994:99:9
# text = But the Beetle buzzed about Jupiter's head, and made him rise to drive her away; and the eggs rolled from his lap.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Beetle	Beetle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	buzzed	buzz	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	rise	rise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	away	away	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	lap	lap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buzz** | past | the Beetle |  |  |  |  | about Jupiter's head | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about head=Location |
| 2 | **make** | past | the Beetle *not said here* | Jupiter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **rise** | infinitive | Jupiter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **drive away** | to-infinitive | Jupiter *not said here* | Beetle |  |  |  | away *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 5 | **roll** | past | the eggs |  |  | Jupiter's lap |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from lap=Trajectory |

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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:** «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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