The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched, sentence 23

Hot air isn’t as good as gas, for if the air should get cold the balloon would come down in the desert, and we should be lost.”

Who acts: Hot air, air, balloon · What happens: not be, get, come down, lose · To what, where: desert, we

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hot air, air, balloon), 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	Hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 air	amod
2	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 good	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 good	cop
4	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 good	advmod
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 good	advmod
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	as	as	ADP	_	8 gas	case
8	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 good	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 get	punct
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 get	mark
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 get	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 air	det
13	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 get	nsubj
14	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 get	aux
15	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 good	parataxis
16	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 get	xcomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 balloon	det
18	balloon	balloon	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 come	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 come	aux
20	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 get	ccomp
21	down	down	ADV	_	20 come	advmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 desert	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 desert	det
24	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 come	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 lost	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 lost	cc
27	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 lost	nsubj
28	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 lost	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 lost	aux:pass
30	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 good	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 good	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 good	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	present	Hot air			as gas; good property	tree rules
2	get a condition, not said to happen	should	the air			cold property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	come down	would	the balloon		the desert	down property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in desert=Location
4	lose	should · passive		we			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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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