The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 99

There were two golden bands fastened to them that passed around the back of her head, where they were locked together by a little key that was at the end of a chain the Guardian of the Gates wore around his neck.

Who acts: two golden bands, that, little key, Guardian · What happens: be, fasten, pass, lock, wear · To what, where: glasses, back, end, neck

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 (two golden bands, that, little key, Guardian), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fastened	advcl
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 bands	nummod
4	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bands	amod
5	bands	band	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fastened	nsubj
6	fastened	fasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fastened	obl
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 passed	nsubj
10	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fastened	parataxis
11	around	around	ADP	_	13 back	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 back	det
13	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 passed	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 head	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 head	nmod:poss
16	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 back	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 locked	punct
18	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 locked	advmod
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 locked	nsubj:pass
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 locked	aux:pass
21	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 passed	conj
22	together	together	ADV	_	21 locked	advmod
23	by	by	ADP	_	26 key	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 key	det
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 key	amod
26	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 locked	obl
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 end	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 end	cop
29	at	at	ADP	_	31 end	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 end	det
31	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 key	acl:relcl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 chain	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 chain	det
34	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 end	nmod
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Guardian	det
36	Guardian	Guardian	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 wore	nsubj
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 Gates	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 Gates	det
39	Gates	Gate	PROPN	Number=Plur	36 Guardian	nmod
40	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 end	acl:relcl
41	around	around	ADP	_	43 neck	case
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 neck	nmod:poss
43	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 wore	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fastened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	two golden bands not said here			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fasten	past	two golden bands		glasses = glass				vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to they=Co-Patient
3	pass	past	that			the back of Guardian's head			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme around back=Location
4	lock	past · passive		glasses = glass				by a little key; together property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	is	past	a little key				at the end	of a chain	tree rules
6	wear	past	the Guardian of the Gates	the end not said here		gate's neck			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent end=Source

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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