The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVI. The Magic Art of the Great Humbug, sentence 4

When I return I shall be as other men are.”

Who acts: I · What happens: return, be

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVI. The Magic Art of the Great Humbug. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 return	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 return	nsubj
3	return	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 men	nsubj
5	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 men	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 men	cop
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 men	case
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 men	amod
9	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 return	ccomp
10	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 return	conj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 return	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 return	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	return	present	I		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	shall	I	as other men	tree rules
3	be	present	I not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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