--- title: Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · full text with trees · page 2 description: Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: It was some time before the Cowardly Lion awakened, for he had lain among the poppies a long while, breathing in their deadly frag --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/12/page/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Wonderful Wizard of Oz](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/) / Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate # Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate · page 2 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/12/) **2** - [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/12/101/) — Then the green man fitted spectacles for the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman and the Lion, and even on little Toto; and all were locked fast with the key. - [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/12/102/) — Then the Guardian of the Gates put on his own glasses and told them he was ready to show them to the Palace. - [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/12/103/) — Taking a big golden key from a peg on the wall, he opened another gate, and they all followed him through the portal into the streets of the Emerald City. [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/12/) **2** - ← previous: [Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/11/) - next →: [Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/13/) - ↑ back to [The Wonderful Wizard of Oz](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/)