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title: Johannes Vermeer painted Girl with a Pearl Earring around 1665 in th… — Famous paintings and the stories behind them · tree and pragmatics
description: Johannes Vermeer painted Girl with a Pearl Earring around 1665 in the Netherlands; who the girl was is unknown, and a later novel and film invented a story about her. Who acts: Johannes, novel. A sentence of the lesson «Famous paintings and the stories behind them» of the arts course of Mova's prima
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# Famous paintings and the stories behind them, sentence 14

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Johannes Vermeer painted Girl with a Pearl Earring around 1665 in the Netherlands; who the girl was is unknown, and a later novel and film invented a story about her.

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**Who acts:** Johannes, novel · **What happens:** paint, be, invent · **To what, where:** Girl, 1665, story

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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 (Johannes, novel), 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:14
# text = Johannes Vermeer painted Girl with a Pearl Earring around 1665 in the Netherlands; who the girl was is unknown, and a later novel and film invented a story about her.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Johannes	Johannes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Vermeer	Vermeer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	painted	paint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Girl	girl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Pearl	Pearl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Earring	earring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	around	around	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	1665	1665	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Netherlands	Netherlands	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	25	advmod	_	_
25	novel	novel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
28	invented	invent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	about	about	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nmod	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **paint** | past | Johannes | Girl |  | 1665 |  | with a Pearl Earring; in the Netherlands | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent girl=Theme around 1665=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | unknown *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **invent** | past | a novel and film | a story |  |  |  | about Girl | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Result |

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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): R8-pos-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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