The magician's trick explained, sentence 25

A magician in Dublin made a girl's watch vanish from a box and appear in his pocket; she was worried for one second, and he gave it straight back with a bow.

Who acts: magician, watch, girl, Dublin · What happens: make, vanish, appear, be, give · To what, where: box, pocket, watch

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, watch, girl, Dublin), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 magician	det
2	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Dublin	case
4	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 magician	nmod
5	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 girl	det
7	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 watch	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 girl	case
9	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 vanish	nsubj
10	vanish	vanish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 made	xcomp
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 box	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 box	det
13	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 vanish	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 appear	cc
15	appear	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 vanish	conj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 pocket	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 pocket	nmod:poss
18	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 appear	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 worried	punct
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 worried	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 worried	cop
22	worried	worried	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 made	parataxis
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 one	case
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 worried	obl
25	second	second	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	24 one	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 gave	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 gave	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 gave	nsubj
29	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 made	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 gave	obj
31	straight	straight	ADV	_	32 back	advmod
32	back	back	ADV	_	29 gave	advmod
33	with	with	ADP	_	35 bow	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 bow	det
35	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 gave	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past	a magician in Dublin				tree rules
2	vanish	infinitive	a girl's watch		a box		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from box=Initial_Location
3	appear	infinitive	a girl's watch not said here		Dublin's pocket		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pocket=Location
4	is	past	girl			for one; worried property	tree rules
5	give	past	Dublin	watch		with a bow	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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:25.

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, 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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