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title: Picture Chen at the Louvre in Paris, squeezed in a crowd of phones,… — Famous paintings and the stories behind them · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of the lesson «Famous paintings and the stories
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# Famous paintings and the stories behind them, sentence 1

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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.

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**Who acts:** you, Lisa, part · **What happens:** picture, squeeze, stare, be, come, steal · **To what, where:** Chen, Louvre, crowd, 1911

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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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:arts:015-famous-paintings-and-the-stories-behind-them.lesson:1
# text = 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.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = arts
# lesson = 015-famous-paintings-and-the-stories-behind-them.lesson
# annotation = 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
1	Picture	picture	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Chen	Chen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Louvre	Louvre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Paris	Paris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	squeezed	squeeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	phones	phone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	staring	stare	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Mona	Mona	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Lisa	Lisa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	about	about	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	77	77	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	appos	_	_
28	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	53	53	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
33	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	fame	fame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
38	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
39	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	40	aux:pass	_	_
40	stolen	steal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	advcl	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	1911	1911	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	40	obl	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	40	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
45	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	46	nummod	_	_
46	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obl:unmarked	_	_
47	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	44	advmod	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=37:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | 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 |

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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.

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**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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