The magician's trick explained, sentence 2
Afterwards the magician showed him: the coin had been in his hand the whole time, tucked between two fingers, while everyone watched his other hand waving.
Who acts: magician, coin, everyone, other hand · What happens: show, be, tuck, watch, wave · To what, where: Owen, hand, whole time, two fingers · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The magician's trick explained» of the everyday 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 (magician, coin, everyone, other hand), 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 | Afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 4 showed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 magician | det |
| 3 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 showed | nsubj |
| 4 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 showed | iobj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 hand | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 coin | det |
| 8 | coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hand | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 hand | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 hand | cop |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 hand | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hand | nmod:poss |
| 13 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 showed | ccomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 time | det |
| 15 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 time | amod |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hand | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 tucked | punct |
| 18 | tucked | tuck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 time | acl |
| 19 | between | between | ADP | _ | 21 fingers | case |
| 20 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 fingers | nummod |
| 21 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 tucked | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 watched | punct |
| 23 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 25 watched | mark |
| 24 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 25 watched | nsubj |
| 25 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 time | advcl |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 hand | nmod:poss |
| 27 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 hand | amod |
| 28 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 waving | nsubj |
| 29 | waving | wave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 watched | xcomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 showed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | past | the magician | Owen | afterwards property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is | past · perfect | the coin | Owen's hand | time | tree rules | |||
| 3 | tuck | participle | the whole time not said here | two fingers | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent between finger=Destination | ||||
| 4 | watch | past | everyone | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | wave | gerund | Owen's other hand | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:everyday:448-the-magicians-trick-explained.lesson:2.
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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