Building tension and suspense, sentence 7
Suspense is the feeling of waiting and worrying about what will happen next.
Who acts: Suspense · What happens: be, wait, worry, happen · To what, where: feeling
This is a sentence of the lesson «Building tension and suspense» 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 (Suspense), 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 | Suspense | suspense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 feeling | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 feeling | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 feeling | det |
| 4 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 6 waiting | mark |
| 6 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 feeling | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 worrying | cc |
| 8 | worrying | worry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 waiting | conj |
| 9 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 12 happen | mark |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 happen | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 happen | aux |
| 12 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 worrying | ccomp |
| 13 | next | next | ADV | _ | 12 happen | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 feeling | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Suspense | the feeling | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wait | gerund | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | worry | gerund | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | happen | future | next 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, 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:042-building-tension-and-suspense.lesson:7.
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): 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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