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title: This ring was still more useful than the box, because when one wishe… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This ring was still more useful than the box, because when one wished oneself at any place one was there directly, without even the trouble of flying to it through the air. Who acts: ring, one, trouble. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, with its 
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 110

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This ring was still more useful than the box, because when one wished oneself at any place one was there directly, without even the trouble of flying to it through the air.

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**Who acts:** ring, one, trouble · **What happens:** be, wish, fly · **To what, where:** oneself, place, ring, air

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ring, one, trouble), 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:pg2435:18:110
# text = This ring was still more useful than the box, because when one wished oneself at any place one was there directly, without even the trouble of flying to it through the air.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	still	still	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
6	useful	useful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
13	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	oneself	oneself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obj	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	obj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	conj	_	_
22	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	without	without	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	even	even	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	advcl	_	_
28	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
29	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	acl	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	_
32	through	through	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | this ring |  |  |  | still | than the box; useful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **wish** | past | one | oneself |  | any place |  | directly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **fly** | gerund | the trouble *not said here* |  | ring | the air |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Location |

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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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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