--- title: The Tin Woodman had chopped a big pile of wood, and now he made a fi… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: The Tin Woodman had chopped a big pile of wood, and now he made a fire of it, and Oz held the bottom of the balloon over the fire so that the hot air that arose from it would be caught in the silken bag. Who acts: Woodman, Oz, hot air. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Cha --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/19/42/) [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 XVII. How the Balloon Was Laun…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/19/) / 42 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched, sentence 42 The Tin Woodman had chopped a big pile of wood, and now he made a fire of it, and Oz held the bottom of the balloon over the fire so that the hot air that arose from it would be caught in the silken bag. **Who acts:** Woodman, Oz, hot air · **What happens:** chop, make, hold, arise, catch, fire · **To what, where:** Tin Woodman, fire, bottom, hot air, silken bag 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 (Woodman, Oz, hot air), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg55:19:42 # text = The Tin Woodman had chopped a big pile of wood, and now he made a fire of it, and Oz held the bottom of the balloon over the fire so that the hot air that arose from it would be caught in the silken bag. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Tin Tin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Woodman Woodman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 chopped chop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 pile pile NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 15 advmod _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 Oz Oz PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 held hold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 balloon balloon NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 over over ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 32 so so SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 33 that that SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj:pass _ _ 37 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 38 nsubj _ _ 38 arose arise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 acl:relcl _ _ 39 from from ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obl _ _ 41 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 42 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 43 aux:pass _ _ 43 caught catch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 advcl _ _ 44 in in ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 46 silken silken ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 bag bag NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **chop** | past · perfect · passive | | the Tin Woodman | | | | | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient pile=Result | | 2 | **make** | past | Woodman | a fire of fire | | | now | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product | | 3 | **hold** | past | Oz | the bottom of the balloon over the fire | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottom=Theme | | 4 | **arise** | past | the hot air | | | fire | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **catch** | would · passive | | the hot air | | the silken bag | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 6 | **fire** | | | fire | | | | | nom fire «event transitive»: of=patient | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/19/41/) - next →: [sentence 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/19/43/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/19/)