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title: Paintings of history often mix fact, legend and the painter's imagin… — Famous paintings and the stories behind them · tree and pragmatics
description: Paintings of history often mix fact, legend and the painter's imagination. Who acts: Paintings, painter. A sentence of the lesson «Famous paintings and the stories behind them» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Famous paintings and the stories behind them, sentence 16

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Paintings of history often mix fact, legend and the painter's imagination.

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**Who acts:** Paintings, painter · **What happens:** mix, imagine · **To what, where:** fact

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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 (Paintings, painter), 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:16
# text = Paintings of history often mix fact, legend and the painter's imagination.
# 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): no change
1	Paintings	painting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	often	often	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	mix	mix	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	painter	painter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	imagination	imagination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **mix** | present | Paintings of history | fact and legend and the painter's imagination |  |  |  | often *property* | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fact=Patient |
| 2 | **imagine** |  | the painter |  |  |  |  |  | nom imagination «cognition transitive»: poss=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): no change. **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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