Fronted adverbials, sentence 12
An adverbial tells you when, where, how or how often something happens.
Who acts: adverbial, something · What happens: tell, happen · To what, where: you · 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 (adverbial, something), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 adverbial | det |
| 2 | adverbial | adverbial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tells | nsubj |
| 3 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 tells | iobj |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 happens | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 where | punct |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 happens | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 where | punct |
| 9 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 often | advmod |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 often | cc |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 often | advmod |
| 12 | often | often | ADV | _ | 14 happens | advmod |
| 13 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 happens | nsubj |
| 14 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 tells | ccomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tells | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | a adverbial | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | happen | present | something | often property | vn occur-48.3-1 «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.
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:12.
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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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