The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched, sentence 54
She was within a few steps of it, and Oz was holding out his hands to help her into the basket, when, crack! went the ropes, and the balloon rose into the air without her.
Who acts: Dorothy, Oz, balloon · What happens: be, hold out, help, crack, go, rise · To what, where: hands, Dorothy, basket, ropes, air
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 (Dorothy, Oz, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 steps | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 steps | cop |
| 3 | within | within | ADP | _ | 6 steps | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 steps | det |
| 5 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 steps | amod |
| 6 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 steps | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 holding | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 holding | cc |
| 11 | Oz | Oz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 holding | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 holding | aux |
| 13 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 steps | acl:relcl |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 holding | compound:prt |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 hands | nmod:poss |
| 16 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 holding | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 help | mark |
| 18 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 holding | advcl |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 help | obj |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 basket | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 basket | det |
| 22 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 help | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 crack | punct |
| 24 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 crack | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 crack | punct |
| 26 | crack | crack | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 steps | parataxis |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 28 went | punct |
| 28 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 crack | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 ropes | det |
| 30 | ropes | rope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 went | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 rose | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 rose | cc |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 balloon | det |
| 34 | balloon | balloon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 rose | nsubj |
| 35 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 went | conj |
| 36 | into | into | ADP | _ | 38 air | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 air | det |
| 38 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 rose | obl |
| 39 | without | without | ADP | _ | 40 her | case |
| 40 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 rose | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 steps | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Dorothy | within a few steps; of kitten | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hold out | past · progressive | Oz | Toto's hands | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 3 | help | to-infinitive | Oz not said here | Dorothy | the basket | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | crack | infinitive | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | go | past | the ropes | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rope=Theme | |||||
| 6 | rise | past | the balloon | the air | without Dorothy | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into air=Initial_Location |
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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