The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 67

In the middle of the temple was an altar, on which lay a book, and behind the altar hung a great curtain.

Who acts: temple · What happens: be, lie, hang · To what, where: book, middle, great curtain, altar

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (temple), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 middle	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 middle	det
3	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lay	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	9 altar	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 temple	det
6	temple	temple	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 altar	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 altar	cop
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 altar	det
9	altar	altar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 middle	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lay	punct
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 which	case
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 lay	nsubj
13	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 book	det
15	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lay	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 hung	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 hung	cc
18	behind	behind	ADP	_	20 altar	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 altar	det
20	altar	altar	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hung	obl
21	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 lay	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 curtain	det
23	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 curtain	amod
24	curtain	curtain	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hung	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the temple			of a altar	tree rules
2	lie	past		a book	the middle		vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location book=Theme
3	hang	past		a great curtain	the altar		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent curtain=Theme behind altar=Destination

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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