--- title: The balloon was by this time tugging hard at the rope that held it t… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: The balloon was by this time tugging hard at the rope that held it to the ground, for the air within it was hot, and this made it so much lighter in weight than the air without that it pulled hard to rise into the sky. Who acts: balloon, time, rope, visit. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/19/48/) [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/) / 48 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched, sentence 48 The balloon was by this time tugging hard at the rope that held it to the ground, for the air within it was hot, and this made it so much lighter in weight than the air without that it pulled hard to rise into the sky. **Who acts:** balloon, time, rope, visit, this · **What happens:** be, tug, hold, make, pull, rise · **To what, where:** visit, sky 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 (balloon, time, rope, visit), 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:pg55:19:48 # text = The balloon was by this time tugging hard at the rope that held it to the ground, for the air within it was hot, and this made it so much lighter in weight than the air without that it pulled hard to rise into the sky. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 balloon balloon NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 by by ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 6 det _ _ 6 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 tugging tug VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 acl _ _ 8 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 7 advmod _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 rope rope NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 12 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 held hold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 22 within within ADP IN _ 25 mark _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 29 nsubj _ _ 29 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 so so ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 much much ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 lighter light ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 29 xcomp _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 36 than than ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 39 without without SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 40 that that SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 41 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 pulled pull VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ _ 43 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 xcomp _ _ 44 to to PART TO _ 45 mark _ _ 45 rise rise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 43 xcomp _ _ 46 into into ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the balloon | | | | by this time | | tree rules | | 2 | **tug** | gerund | this time *not said here* | | | | | for the air; at the rope; hard *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at rope=Theme | | 3 | **hold** | past | the rope | visit | | | | to the ground | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **is** | past | visit | | | | | hot *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **make** | past | this | visit | | | | light *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | | 6 | **pull** | past | visit | | | | | hard *property* | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **rise** | to-infinitive | visit *not said here* | | | the sky | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into sky=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. - ← previous: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/19/47/) - next →: [sentence 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/19/49/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/19/)