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title: And worse than that, the crested lark, that was formerly so timid an… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And worse than that, the crested lark, that was formerly so timid and shy, is now no better than a thief, and steals maize and corn whenever she can find them.' Who acts: that, worse crested lark, lark. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32, with its dependency tree 
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 140

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And worse than that, the crested lark, that was formerly so timid and shy, is now no better than a thief, and steals maize and corn whenever she can find them.'

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**Who acts:** that, worse crested lark, lark · **What happens:** crest, be, not be, steal, find · **To what, where:** maize

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, worse crested lark, lark), 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:pg3027:32:140
# text = And worse than that, the crested lark, that was formerly so timid and shy, is now no better than a thief, and steals maize and corn whenever she can find them.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
3	than	than	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	crested	crest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	lark	lark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	formerly	formerly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	timid	timid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	shy	shy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
20	no	no	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
22	than	than	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	thief	thief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	steals	steal	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
28	maize	maize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
31	whenever	whenever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	34	advmod	_	_
32	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	_
35	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crest** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | that |  |  |  |  | formerly, timid *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | that *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **is** | present | the worse crested lark |  |  |  | now | than a thief; good *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **steal** | present | the worse crested lark *not said here* | maize and corn |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location maize=Theme |
| 6 | **find** | can | lark | maize |  |  |  | whenever *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |

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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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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