Famous paintings and the stories behind them, sentence 1
Picture Chen at the Louvre in Paris, squeezed in a crowd of phones, staring at the Mona Lisa: it is small, about 77 by 53 centimetres, and part of its fame comes from being stolen in 1911 and found two years later.
Who acts: you, Lisa, part · What happens: picture, squeeze, stare, be, come, steal · To what, where: Chen, Louvre, crowd, 1911
This is a sentence of the lesson «Famous paintings and the stories behind them» 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, Lisa, part), 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 | Chen | Chen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 Louvre | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Louvre | det |
| 5 | Louvre | Louvre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Paris | case |
| 7 | Paris | Paris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Louvre | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 squeezed | punct |
| 9 | squeezed | squeeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Chen | acl:relcl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 crowd | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 crowd | det |
| 12 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 squeezed | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 phones | case |
| 14 | phones | phone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 crowd | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 staring | punct |
| 16 | staring | stare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 squeezed | advcl |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 Lisa | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Lisa | det |
| 19 | Mona | Mona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Lisa | compound |
| 20 | Lisa | Lisa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 staring | obl |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 small | punct |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 small | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 small | cop |
| 24 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Picture | parataxis |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 77 | punct |
| 26 | about | about | ADV | _ | 27 77 | advmod |
| 27 | 77 | 77 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 small | appos |
| 28 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 centimetres | case |
| 29 | 53 | 53 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 centimetres | nummod |
| 30 | centimetres | centimetre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 77 | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 comes | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 comes | cc |
| 33 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 comes | nsubj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 fame | case |
| 35 | its | its | PRON | Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 fame | nmod:poss |
| 36 | fame | fame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 part | nmod |
| 37 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 small | conj |
| 38 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 40 stolen | mark |
| 39 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 40 stolen | aux:pass |
| 40 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 comes | advcl |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 1911 | case |
| 42 | 1911 | 1911 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 40 stolen | obl |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 found | cc |
| 44 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 stolen | conj |
| 45 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 46 years | nummod |
| 46 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 later | obl:unmarked |
| 47 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 44 found | advmod |
| 48 | . | . | 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 | Chen | the Louvre in Paris | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent chen=Theme | |||
| 2 | squeeze | participle | Chen not said here | a crowd of phones | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | stare | gerund | at the Mona Lisa | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at lisa=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | present | Lisa | small property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | come | present | part of part's fame | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | steal | gerund · passive | part of part's fame not said here | 1911 | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: in 1911=Location | ||||
| 7 | find | participle | part of part's fame not said here | late property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent |
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:015-famous-paintings-and-the-stories-behind-them.lesson:1.
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 ×2, 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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