The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 30

There was to be a great battle between all the creatures of the earth and the birds of the air.

What happens: be · To what, where: great battle

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	7 battle	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 battle	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 battle	det
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 battle	amod
7	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	ccomp
8	between	between	ADP	_	11 creatures	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 creatures	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 creatures	det
11	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 battle	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 earth	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 earth	det
14	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 creatures	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 birds	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 birds	det
17	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 earth	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 air	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 air	det
20	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 birds	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past				there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	to-infinitive		a great battle				between all creatures of the earth and the birds of the air	tree rules

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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