--- title: «We went home later that day.» When you move it to the very front of… — Fronted adverbials · tree and pragmatics description: «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. 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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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:029-fronted-adverbials.lesson:1 # text = «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. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=41:punct 2 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 parataxis _ _ 4 home home ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 7 advmod _ _ 6 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 7 det _ _ 7 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 9 » » PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct 10 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 12 advmod _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 move move VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 very very ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 17 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 sentence sentence NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 fronted front VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 amod _ _ 26 adverbial adverbial NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 xcomp _ _ 27 : : PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 28 « « PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct 29 Later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 31 advmod _ _ 30 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 31 det _ _ 31 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl:unmarked _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 33 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 35 home home ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ _ 37 » » PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ 38 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 41 advmod _ _ 39 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj:pass _ _ 40 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux:pass _ _ 41 followed follow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 42 by by ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 comma comma NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl:agent _ _ 45 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 46 like like ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 47 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 48 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 pause pause NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 conj _ _ 50 before before ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 52 main main ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 53 amod _ _ 53 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=41:obl 54 . . PUNCT . _ 41 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to 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](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: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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Fronted adverbials, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/29-fronted-adverbials/0/) - next →: [Fronted adverbials, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/29-fronted-adverbials/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/29-fronted-adverbials/)