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description: On the Eagle making his complaint, Jupiter ordered him to make his nest in his lap; and while Jupiter had the eggs in his lap, the Beetle came flying about him, and Jupiter rising up unawares, to drive him away from his head, threw down the eggs, and broke them. Who acts: Eagle, Jupiter, Beetle. A s
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 62

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On the Eagle making his complaint, Jupiter ordered him to make his nest in his lap; and while Jupiter had the eggs in his lap, the Beetle came flying about him, and Jupiter rising up unawares, to drive him away from his head, threw down the eggs, and broke them.

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**Who acts:** Eagle, Jupiter, Beetle · **What happens:** make, order, have, come, fly, rise up · **To what, where:** complaint, Beetle, nest, lap, eggs, unawares

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eagle, Jupiter, Beetle), 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:pg21:16:62
# text = On the Eagle making his complaint, Jupiter ordered him to make his nest in his lap; and while Jupiter had the eggs in his lap, the Beetle came flying about him, and Jupiter rising up unawares, to drive him away from his head, threw down the eggs, and broke them.
1	On	on	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	complaint	complaint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	lap	lap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	lap	lap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Beetle	Beetle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
32	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	xcomp	_	_
33	about	about	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
38	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	advcl	_	_
39	up	up	ADP	RP	_	38	compound:prt	_	_
40	unawares	unaware	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	conj	_	_
44	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obj	_	_
45	away	away	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
46	from	from	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
50	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	parataxis	_	_
51	down	down	ADP	RP	_	50	compound:prt	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
56	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	conj	_	_
57	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | gerund | the Eagle | Beetle's complaint |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent complaint=Product |
| 2 | **order** | past | Jupiter |  | Beetle |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **make** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Jupiter *not said here* | Beetle's nest |  | Beetle's lap |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset nest=Product |
| 4 | **have** | past | Jupiter | the eggs |  | Beetle's lap |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Patient |
| 5 | **come** | past | the Beetle |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **fly** | gerund | the Beetle *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about Beetle | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about he=Location |
| 7 | **rise up** | gerund | Jupiter | unawares |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location unaware=Theme |
| 8 | **drive** | to-infinitive | Jupiter *not said here* | Beetle |  |  |  | away *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 9 | **throw down** | past |  | the eggs |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme |
| 10 | **break** | past |  | Eagle |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Patient |
| 11 | **complain** |  | Beetle |  |  |  |  |  | nom complaint «state intransitive»: poss=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:** «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (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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