--- title: She was within a few steps of it, and Oz was holding out his hands t… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: 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. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was L --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/19/54/) [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/) / 54 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg55:19:54 # text = 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. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 3 within within ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 steps step NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 Oz Oz PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 holding hold VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 acl:relcl _ _ 14 out out ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ _ 19 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 into into ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 basket basket NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 26 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 crack crack VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ! ! PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ _ 28 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 ropes rope NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 balloon balloon NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 rose rise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 36 into into ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 39 without without ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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. - ← previous: [sentence 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/19/53/) - next →: [sentence 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/19/55/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/19/)