The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 110

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 · What happens: be, wish, fly · To what, where: oneself, place, ring, air

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.

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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 ring	det
2	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 useful	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 useful	cop
4	still	still	ADV	_	6 useful	advmod
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 useful	advmod
6	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	than	than	ADP	_	9 box	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 box	det
9	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 useful	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wished	punct
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 wished	mark
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 wished	advmod
13	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 wished	nsubj
14	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 useful	conj
15	oneself	oneself	PRON	Case=Acc Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 wished	obj
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 place	case
17	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	18 place	det
18	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wished	obl
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 wished	obj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 there	cop
21	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 one	conj
22	directly	directly	ADV	_	14 wished	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 trouble	punct
24	without	without	ADP	_	27 trouble	case
25	even	even	ADV	_	27 trouble	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 trouble	det
27	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wished	advcl
28	of	of	SCONJ	_	29 flying	mark
29	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 trouble	acl
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 it	case
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 flying	obl
32	through	through	ADP	_	34 air	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 air	det
34	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 flying	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 useful	punct

Pragmatics

#	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

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 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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