The Aesop for Children, The Eagle and the Beetle, sentence 9

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

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.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 buzzed	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Beetle	det
3	Beetle	Beetle	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 buzzed	nsubj
4	buzzed	buzz	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	8 head	case
6	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 head	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Jupiter	case
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 buzzed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 made	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 made	cc
11	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 buzzed	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 made	obj
13	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 made	xcomp
14	to	to	PART	_	15 drive	mark
15	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 rise	xcomp
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 drive	obj
17	away	away	ADV	_	15 drive	advmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 rolled	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 rolled	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 eggs	det
21	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 rolled	nsubj
22	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 buzzed	parataxis
23	from	from	ADP	_	25 lap	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 lap	nmod:poss
25	lap	lap	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 rolled	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 buzzed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	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

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.

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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