ToJEFCT To-clause after factive adjective

MFTE ToJSTNCall

Definition

To-clause preceded by a factive adjective.

Detection Rules

Adjective from list + to + verb base form.

cql[lemma={words} & pos="JJ.*"] [pos="TO"] [pos="VB"]
Word list (13 items)
afraid ashamed disappointed embarrassed glad happy pleased proud puzzled relieved sorry surprised worried

Requires: lemma, pos

Normalization

Per words

Examples

glad to

sorry to

Sources

  • biber_2006 — Biber, Douglas (2006) : University Language — A Corpus-based Study of Spoken and Written Registers
  • mfte — Le Foll, Elen & Shakir, Muhammad (2023/2025) : Multi-Feature Tagger of English (MFTE) — Python version

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