Famous paintings and the stories behind them, sentence 10

Van Gogh painted a series of sunflower paintings in 1888 and 1889, with flowers at every stage from fresh to wilting, to decorate a room for his friend the painter Paul Gauguin.

Who acts: Van · What happens: paint, wilt, decorate · To what, where: series, 1888, room

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 (Van), 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	Van	Van	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 painted	nsubj
2	Gogh	Gogh	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Van	flat
3	painted	paint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 series	det
5	series	series	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 painted	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 paintings	case
7	sunflower	sunflower	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 paintings	compound
8	paintings	painting	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 series	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 1888	case
10	1888	1888	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 painted	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 1889	cc
12	1889	1889	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 1888	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 flowers	punct
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 flowers	case
15	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 painted	obl
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 stage	case
17	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	18 stage	det
18	stage	stage	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 flowers	nmod
19	from	from	ADP	_	20 fresh	case
20	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 stage	amod
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 wilting	case
22	wilting	wilt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 fresh	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 decorate	punct
24	to	to	PART	_	25 decorate	mark
25	decorate	decorate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 painted	advcl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 room	det
27	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 decorate	obj
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 friend	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 friend	nmod:poss
30	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 decorate	obl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 painter	det
32	painter	painter	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 friend	appos
33	Paul	Paul	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 painter	appos
34	Gauguin	Gauguin	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Paul	flat
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 painted	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	paint	past	Van	a series of sunflower paintings	1888	with flowers at every stage	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent series=Theme in 1888=Destination
2	wilt	gerund	Van not said here				vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	decorate	to-infinitive	Van not said here	a room		for Van's friend	vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Destination

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:10.

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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