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title: The Guardian of the Gates found a pair that would just fit Dorothy a… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: The Guardian of the Gates found a pair that would just fit Dorothy and put them over her eyes. Who acts: Guardian, pair. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 98

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The Guardian of the Gates found a pair that would just fit Dorothy and put them over her eyes.

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**Who acts:** Guardian, pair · **What happens:** find, fit, put · **To what, where:** pair, Dorothy, glasses, eyes

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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, pair), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg55:12:98
# text = The Guardian of the Gates found a pair that would just fit Dorothy and put them over her eyes.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Guardian	guardian	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Gates	Gate	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	just	just	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	fit	fit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	over	over	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | the Guardian of the Gates | a pair |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=Topic |
| 2 | **fit** | would | a pair | Dorothy |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dorothy=Patient |
| 3 | **put** | infinitive | a pair *not said here* | glasses *= glass* |  | Guardian's eyes |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme over eye=Destination |

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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.

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**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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