The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 40

Meanwhile he was dazzled with the splendour around him, and more than ever he longed for part of the riches, about which the owners seemed to care so little.

Who acts: Tiidu, owners · What happens: dazzle, long, seem, care · To what, where: Tiidu

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tiidu, owners), 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	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	4 dazzled	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dazzled	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dazzled	aux:pass
4	dazzled	dazzle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 splendour	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 splendour	det
7	splendour	splendour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dazzled	obl
8	around	around	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 splendour	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 longed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 longed	cc
12	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	16 longed	advmod
13	than	than	ADP	_	12 more	fixed
14	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	16 longed	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 longed	nsubj
16	longed	long	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dazzled	conj
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 part	case
18	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 longed	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 riches	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 riches	det
21	riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 part	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 seemed	punct
23	about	about	ADP	_	24 which	case
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 seemed	obl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 owners	det
26	owners	owner	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 seemed	nsubj
27	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 longed	parataxis
28	to	to	PART	_	29 care	mark
29	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 seemed	xcomp
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 little	advmod
31	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 care	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dazzled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	dazzle	past · passive		Tiidu		with the splendour around Kungla; meanwhile property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	long	past	Tiidu		ever	for part of the riches	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for part=Theme
3	seem	past	the owners				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	care	to-infinitive	the owners not said here				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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