Fronted adverbials, sentence 15
A fronted adverbial can be one word (Suddenly), a phrase (Under the bridge) or a clause (Because I was hungry).
Who acts: fronted adverbial, I · What happens: front, be · To what, where: one word
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 (fronted adverbial, I), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 adverbial | det |
| 2 | fronted | front | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 adverbial | amod |
| 3 | adverbial | adverbial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 word | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 word | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 word | cop |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 word | nummod |
| 7 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 Suddenly | punct |
| 9 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 7 word | advmod |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 9 Suddenly | punct |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 phrase | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 phrase | det |
| 13 | phrase | phrase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 word | appos |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 17 bridge | punct |
| 15 | Under | under | ADP | _ | 17 bridge | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bridge | det |
| 17 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 phrase | nmod |
| 18 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 17 bridge | punct |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 clause | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 clause | det |
| 21 | clause | clause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 phrase | conj |
| 22 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 26 hungry | punct |
| 23 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 26 hungry | mark |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 hungry | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 hungry | cop |
| 26 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 clause | appos |
| 27 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 26 hungry | punct |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 word | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | front | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is a | can | a fronted adverbial | one word | suddenly property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | past | I | hungry property | 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:15.
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): 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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