The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 25

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 · What happens: come up, put, weep · To what, where: paws, shoulders

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.

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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 came	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 brothers	det
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 brothers	nummod
4	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 brothers	amod
5	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	up	up	ADV	_	6 came	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 put	cc
9	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 came	conj
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 paws	nmod:poss
11	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 put	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 shoulders	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 shoulders	nmod:poss
14	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 put	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 wept	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 wept	cc
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 wept	nsubj
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 three	det
19	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 they	nmod
20	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
21	together	together	ADV	_	20 wept	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	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

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 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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