Famous paintings and the stories behind them, sentence 3
Many paintings mix fact and legend, and some mysteries were later filled in by novels and films; it is wise to ask why an artist chose a style or a subject before mocking it, and to know which parts of a story are made up.
Who acts: Many paintings, novels, artist · What happens: mix, fill in, be, ask, choose, mock · To what, where: fact, mysteries, style, parts · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Many paintings, novels, artist), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 paintings | amod |
| 2 | paintings | painting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 mix | nsubj |
| 3 | mix | mix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mix | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 legend | cc |
| 6 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fact | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 filled | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 filled | cc |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 mysteries | det |
| 10 | mysteries | mystery | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 filled | aux:pass |
| 12 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 filled | advmod |
| 13 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 mix | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 filled | compound:prt |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 novels | case |
| 16 | novels | novel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 filled | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 films | cc |
| 18 | films | film | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 novels | conj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 wise | punct |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 wise | expl |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 wise | cop |
| 22 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 mix | parataxis |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 ask | mark |
| 24 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 wise | csubj |
| 25 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 chose | advmod |
| 26 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 artist | det |
| 27 | artist | artist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 chose | nsubj |
| 28 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 ask | ccomp |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 style | det |
| 30 | style | style | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 chose | obj |
| 31 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 33 subject | cc |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 subject | det |
| 33 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 style | conj |
| 34 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 35 mocking | mark |
| 35 | mocking | mock | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 chose | advcl |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 mocking | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 know | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 know | cc |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 know | mark |
| 40 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 ask | conj |
| 41 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 42 parts | det |
| 42 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 made | nsubj:pass |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 story | case |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 story | det |
| 45 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 parts | nmod |
| 46 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 47 made | aux:pass |
| 47 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 know | ccomp |
| 48 | up | up | ADP | _ | 47 made | compound:prt |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mix | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mix | present | Many paintings | fact and legend | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fact=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fill in | past · passive | novels and films | some mysteries | late property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | |||
| 3 | is | present | wise property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 5 | choose | past | a artist | a style or a subject | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent style=Theme | ||||
| 6 | mock | gerund | a artist not said here | style | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 7 | know | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 8 | make up | present · passive | which parts of a story | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot |
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:3.
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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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.
See the release 0.4.
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