The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 140

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 · What happens: crest, be, not be, steal, find · To what, where: maize

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.

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	_	2 worse	cc
2	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 lark	amod
3	than	than	ADP	_	4 that	case
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 worse	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 worse	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lark	det
7	crested	crest	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 lark	amod
8	lark	lark	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 better	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 timid	punct
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 timid	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 timid	cop
12	formerly	formerly	ADV	_	14 timid	advmod
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 timid	advmod
14	timid	timid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lark	parataxis
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 shy	cc
16	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 timid	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 lark	punct
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 better	cop
19	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 better	advmod
20	no	no	ADV	_	21 better	advmod
21	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
22	than	than	ADP	_	24 thief	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 thief	det
24	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 better	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 steals	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 steals	cc
27	steals	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 better	conj
28	maize	maize	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 steals	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 corn	cc
30	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 maize	conj
31	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	34 find	advmod
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 find	nsubj
33	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 find	aux
34	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 steals	advcl
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 find	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 better	punct
37	'	'	PUNCT	_	21 better	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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

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 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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