The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 102

Then the Guardian of the Gates put on his own glasses and told them he was ready to show them to the Palace.

Who acts: Guardian, gate · What happens: put, tell, be, show · To what, where: own glasses, glasses, Palace · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Guardian, gate), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 put	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Guardian	det
3	Guardian	guardian	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 put	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 Gates	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Gates	det
6	Gates	Gate	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 Guardian	nmod
7	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	on	on	ADP	_	11 glasses	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 glasses	nmod:poss
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 glasses	amod
11	glasses	glass	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 put	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 told	cc
13	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 put	conj
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 told	iobj
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 ready	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 ready	cop
17	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 told	ccomp
18	to	to	PART	_	19 show	mark
19	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 ready	xcomp
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 show	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 Palace	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Palace	det
23	Palace	Palace	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 show	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past	the Guardian of the Gates			gate's own glasses	then		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on glass=Destination
2	tell speech: assert	past	the Guardian of the Gates not said here		glasses = glass				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
3	is	past	gate					ready property	tree rules
4	show	to-infinitive	gate not said here	glasses = glass	the Palace				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Topic to palace=Recipient

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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