Fronted adverbials, sentence 8
Grace starts every sentence of her story with one, and it sounds like a robot: «Then, I woke up.
Who acts: Grace, sentence, word · What happens: start, sound, wake up, sentence · To what, where: sentence, story · 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 (Grace, sentence, word), 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 | Grace | Grace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 starts | nsubj |
| 2 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 sentence | det |
| 4 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 starts | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 story | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 story | nmod:poss |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sentence | nmod |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 one | case |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 starts | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sounds | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sounds | cc |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 sounds | nsubj |
| 13 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 starts | conj |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 robot | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 robot | det |
| 16 | robot | robot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sounds | obl |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 woke | punct |
| 18 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 22 woke | punct |
| 19 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 woke | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Then | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 woke | nsubj |
| 22 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 starts | parataxis |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 woke | compound:prt |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 starts | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | present | Grace | every sentence of Grace's story | with one | tree rules | |||
| 2 | sound | present | sentence | like a robot | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | wake up in a quote | past | a word or group of words = word | then | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | sentence | Grace's story | nom sentence «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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:8.
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. 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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