Fronted adverbials, sentence 1

«We went home later that day.» When you move it to the very front of the sentence, it becomes a fronted adverbial: «Later that day, we went home.» Then it is followed by a comma, like a little pause before the main news.

Who acts: We, you, more, comma · What happens: go, move, become, front, follow · To what, where: more, very front, fronted adverbial · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Fronted adverbials» of the english course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, you, more, comma), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 followed	parataxis
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 day	advmod
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
10	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 move	advmod
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 move	nsubj
12	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 becomes	advcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 move	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 front	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 front	det
16	very	very	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 front	amod
17	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 move	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 sentence	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sentence	det
20	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 front	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 move	punct
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 becomes	nsubj
23	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 adverbial	det
25	fronted	front	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 adverbial	amod
26	adverbial	adverbial	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 becomes	xcomp
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	34 went	punct
28	«	«	PUNCT	_	34 went	punct
29	Later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	31 day	advmod
30	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 day	det
31	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 went	obl:unmarked
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 day	punct
33	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 went	nsubj
34	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 adverbial	conj
35	home	home	ADV	_	34 went	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 adverbial	punct
37	»	»	PUNCT	_	26 adverbial	punct
38	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	41 followed	advmod
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 followed	nsubj:pass
40	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 followed	aux:pass
41	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
42	by	by	ADP	_	44 comma	case
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 comma	det
44	comma	comma	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 followed	obl:agent
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 pause	punct
46	like	like	ADP	_	49 pause	case
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 pause	det
48	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 pause	amod
49	pause	pause	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 comma	conj
50	before	before	ADP	_	53 news	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 news	det
52	main	main	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 news	amod
53	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 pause	nmod
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	41 followed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	past	We			day	home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	move	present	you	more	the very front of the sentence			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme to front=Trajectory
3	become	present	more	a fronted adverbial				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	front	participle						tree rules
5	go in a quote	past	we			day	home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	follow	present · passive	a comma and a little pause before the main news	more		then		tree rules

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.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:english:029-fronted-adverbials.lesson:1.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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