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title: And the two elder brothers came up and put their paws on his shoulde… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And the two elder brothers came up and put their paws on his shoulders, and they all three wept together. Who acts: two elder brothers, brothers. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 25

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And the two elder brothers came up and put their paws on his shoulders, and they all three wept together.

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**Who acts:** two elder brothers, brothers · **What happens:** come up, put, weep · **To what, where:** paws, shoulders

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two elder brothers, brothers), 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:pg3282:15:25
# text = And the two elder brothers came up and put their paws on his shoulders, and they all three wept together.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	up	up	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	paws	paw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nmod	_	_
20	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
21	together	together	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come up** | past | the two elder brothers |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **put** | infinitive | the two elder brothers *not said here* | brothers's paws |  | hunter's shoulders |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent paw=Theme on shoulder=Destination |
| 3 | **weep** | past | brothers *= brother* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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:** «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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