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title: Then the bee got up and carefully brushed every scrap of dust off hi… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the bee got up and carefully brushed every scrap of dust off his velvet coat and buzzed loudly in the boy’s ear to waken him. Who acts: bee. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 34

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Then the bee got up and carefully brushed every scrap of dust off his velvet coat and buzzed loudly in the boy’s ear to waken him.

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**Who acts:** bee · **What happens:** get up, brush, buzz, waken · **To what, where:** scrap, ear, bee

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bee), 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:pg3282:18:34
# text = Then the bee got up and carefully brushed every scrap of dust off his velvet coat and buzzed loudly in the boy’s ear to waken him.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bee	bee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	brushed	brush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	scrap	scrap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	off	off	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	velvet	velvet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:agent	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	buzzed	buzz	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’s	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	waken	waken	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get up** | past | the bee |  |  |  | then |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **brush** | participle | the bee *not said here* | every scrap of dust |  |  |  | carefully *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent scrap=Theme |
| 3 | **buzz** | past | the bee *not said here* |  |  | the boy's ear |  | loudly *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ear=Location |
| 4 | **waken** | to-infinitive | the bee *not said here* | bee |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient |

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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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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