The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 68

They now came upon more and more of the big scarlet poppies, and fewer and fewer of the other flowers; and soon they found themselves in the midst of a great meadow of poppies.

Who acts: flowers · What happens: come, find · To what, where: more, flowers, midst

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flowers), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 came	advmod
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	5 more	case
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 came	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 more	cc
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 more	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 poppies	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 poppies	det
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 poppies	amod
11	scarlet	scarlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 poppies	compound
12	poppies	poppy	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 more	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fewer	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 fewer	cc
15	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 came	parataxis
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 fewer	cc
17	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 fewer	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 flowers	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 flowers	det
20	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 flowers	amod
21	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 fewer	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 found	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 found	cc
24	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 found	advmod
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 found	nsubj
26	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
27	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 found	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 midst	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 midst	det
30	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 found	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 meadow	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 meadow	det
33	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 meadow	amod
34	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 midst	nmod
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 poppies	case
36	poppies	poppy	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 meadow	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	flowers = flower	more			now		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location more=Theme
2	find	past	flowers = flower	flowers = flower		the midst of a great meadow of poppies		soon property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=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 Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Project Gutenberg book 55 (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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