Adjectives and adverbs

List of tags

ADJ adjective
ADJR adjective, comparative
ADJS adjective, superlative
ADV adverb
ADVR adverb, comparative
ADVS adverb, superlative

The following items are not treated as adjectives:

The following items are treated as compound adjectives:

We distinguish positive, comparative, and superlative adjectives and adverbs.

The complements of copular verbs are tagged as ADJ, not ADV.

Colors

The basic tag for basic color terms is ADJ.
BLACK, BLUE, BROWN, GREEN, PURPLE, RED, WHITE, YELLOW
PINK and VIOLET are treated as basic color terms. ORANGE is tagged as ADJ or as N, depending on the syntactic context.

Color terms that neither modify a noun nor function as the predicate of a clause are tagged N. 

the white/N of an egg
a black/N like that of jet
a deep red/N

Comparative adjectives and adverbs

Thenne_ADV quene_NPR Igrayne_NPR waxid_VBD dayly_ADV
gretter_ADJR and_CONJ gretter_ADJR ._.

he_PRO lovithe_VBP Arthure_NPR bettir_ADVR than_P us_PRO ;_.

Degree words are treated as comparatives. See AS, SO (degree), ENOUGH, OVER, and TOO for detailed discussion.

Apparent comparatives

Except when construed with a THAN phrase or clause, apparently comparative forms that lack a base form are tagged as ADJ rather than ADJR.

FORMER, INNER, NETHER, OUTER, UPPER

LATER is tagged ADJ or ADV when not clearly comparative. For unclear cases, the default is ADJR or ADVR.

LATTER is ordinarily tagged ADJ, but in early texts it functions as the ordinary comparative of LATE (later replaced by the innovative LATER) and is then tagged ADJR.

LOWER is tagged as ADJ when the counterpart of UPPER, and as ADJR when the counterpart of HIGHER. For unclear cases, the default is ADJR.

Superlative adjectives and adverbs

in_P the_D greatest_ADJS church_N of_P London_NPR

and_CONJ then_ADV every_Q knight_N took_VBD the_D way_N
that_C he_PRO liked_VBD best_ADVS ._.

Apparent superlatives

Apparently superlative forms that lack a base form are tagged as ADJ rather than ADJS.

INNERMOST, LOWERMOST, NETHERMOST, OUTERMOST, UNDERMOST, UPPERMOST, UTMOST, UTTERMOST

Ordinal numbers

Ordinal numbers are tagged ADJ. FIRST also has an adverbial use. 
+te_D thrid_ADJ day_N of_P +tat_D solempnyte_N

&_CONJ +t=e=_D elleueneth_ADJ assembled_VBD a_D gret_ADJ power_N

Cases where an ordinal might be expected but without overt ordinal marking are treated as cardinal numbers (NUM).

Compound ordinal numbers (fifty-third, three-and-fiftieth, three and fiftieth) are treated as written.

Numbers that are used to mark items in a list are POS-tagged as numbers (NUM) and additionally annotated as list markers (LS).