Author's choices: why this word, why this way, sentence 6
Repeating «closer… closer… closer» slows time down and builds suspense as the danger comes nearer.
Who acts: Repeating, danger · What happens: repeat, slow down, build, come · To what, where: suspense
This is a sentence of the lesson «Author's choices: why this word, why this way» 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 (Repeating, danger), 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 | Repeating | repeat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 slows | csubj |
| 2 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 closer | punct |
| 3 | closer | close | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 1 Repeating | advmod |
| 4 | … | … | ADV | _ | 5 closer | advmod |
| 5 | closer | close | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 closer | conj |
| 6 | … | … | ADV | _ | 7 closer | advmod |
| 7 | closer | close | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 closer | conj |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 1 Repeating | punct |
| 9 | slows | slow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 slows | obj |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 slows | compound:prt |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 builds | cc |
| 13 | builds | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 slows | conj |
| 14 | suspense | suspense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 builds | obj |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 comes | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 danger | det |
| 17 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 comes | nsubj |
| 18 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 builds | advcl |
| 19 | nearer | near | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 comes | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 slows | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repeat | gerund | close property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | slow down | present | Repeating | time | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | build | present | Repeating not said here | suspense | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset suspense=Product | ||||
| 4 | come | present | the danger | near property | vn escape-51.1-1 «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, 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:021-authors-choices-why-this-word-why-this-way.lesson:6.
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): R6-punct-agree ×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.
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