--- title: An adverbial is a word or group of words that tells you more about t… — Fronted adverbials · tree and pragmatics description: An adverbial is a word or group of words that tells you more about the verb: when, where, how, or how often something happened. Who acts: adverbial, word, something. A sentence of the lesson «Fronted adverbials» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/29-fronted-adverbials/0/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/) / [Fronted adverbials](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/29-fronted-adverbials/) / 0 # Fronted adverbials, sentence 0 An adverbial is a word or group of words that tells you more about the verb: when, where, how, or how often something happened. **Who acts:** adverbial, word, something · **What happens:** be, tell, happen · **To what, where:** word, more, 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, word, something), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:029-fronted-adverbials.lesson:0 # text = An adverbial is a word or group of words that tells you more about the verb: when, where, how, or how often something happened. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 029-fronted-adverbials.lesson # annotation = 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 adverbial adverbial NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 10 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 iobj _ _ 13 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 11 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 14 about about ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 verb verb NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:obl 17 : : PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 18 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 28 advmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 20 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 28 advmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 22 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 28 advmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 or or CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 26 advmod _ _ 26 often often ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 27 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 28 nsubj _ _ 28 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a adverbial | a word or group of words | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | a word or group of words | more | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient more=Topic | | 3 | **happen** | past | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:0`. **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, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Clauses: main, subordinate and joining…, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/28-clauses-main-subordinate-and-joining-words/24/) - next →: [Fronted adverbials, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/29-fronted-adverbials/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/29-fronted-adverbials/)