Painting: paints, brushes, mess and mistakes, sentence 2
Picture Hannah's watercolour sky bleeding into the sea: she panics, but that spreading is often the most beautiful bit, and many painters say "happy accidents" (a phrase made famous by the TV painter Bob Ross) give them ideas.
Who acts: you, Hannah, spreading, many painters, happy accidents · What happens: picture, bleed, panic, be, say, make · To what, where: watercolour sky, sea, beautiful bit, phrase, ideas, painters · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Painting: paints, brushes, mess and mistakes» of the arts 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 (you, Hannah, spreading, many painters), 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 | Picture | picture | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | Hannah | Hannah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sky | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Hannah | case |
| 4 | watercolour | watercolour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sky | compound |
| 5 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obj |
| 6 | bleeding | bleed | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Picture | xcomp |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 sea | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sea | det |
| 9 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bleeding | obl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 panics | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 panics | nsubj |
| 12 | panics | panic | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Picture | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 bit | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 bit | cc |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 spreading | det |
| 16 | spreading | spreading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bit | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 bit | cop |
| 18 | often | often | ADV | _ | 22 bit | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bit | det |
| 20 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 21 beautiful | advmod |
| 21 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 bit | amod |
| 22 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 panics | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 say | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 say | cc |
| 25 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 painters | amod |
| 26 | painters | painter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 say | nsubj |
| 27 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 bit | conj |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 accidents | punct |
| 29 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 accidents | amod |
| 30 | accidents | accident | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 give | nsubj |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 accidents | punct |
| 32 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 34 phrase | punct |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 phrase | det |
| 34 | phrase | phrase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 accidents | appos |
| 35 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 phrase | acl |
| 36 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 made | xcomp |
| 37 | by | by | ADP | _ | 40 painter | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 painter | det |
| 39 | TV | TV | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 painter | compound |
| 40 | painter | painter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 made | obl |
| 41 | Bob | Bob | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 painter | appos |
| 42 | Ross | Ross | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Bob | flat |
| 43 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 41 Bob | punct |
| 44 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 say | ccomp |
| 45 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 give | iobj |
| 46 | ideas | idea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 give | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | picture | imperative | you not said here | Hannah's watercolour sky | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent sky=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | bleed | gerund | you not said here | the sea | vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into sea=Location | ||||
| 3 | panic | present | Hannah | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | that spreading | the beautiful bit | often property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | say speech: assert | present | many painters | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | make | participle | a phrase not said here | by the TV painter; famous property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 7 | give | infinitive | happy accidents | ideas | painters = painter | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient idea=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:arts:014-painting-paints-brushes-mess-and-mistakes.lesson:2.
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 ×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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