Sentence:  "Well, one day I went up in a balloon and the ropes got <WSD>twisted</WSD>, so that I couldn't come down again. It went way up above the clouds, so far that a current of air struck it and carried it many, many miles away. For a day and a night I traveled through the air, and on the morning of the second day I awoke and found the balloon floating over a strange and beautiful country." 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To join together by twining one part around another.