The magician's trick explained, sentence 4

A magician is an honest trickster: everybody knows it's a trick, everybody agreed to be fooled, and everything is given back.

Who acts: magician, everybody · What happens: be, know, agree, fool, give back · To what, where: honest trickster, trick, everything · 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, everybody), 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	6 trickster	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 trickster	cop
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 trickster	det
5	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 trickster	amod
6	trickster	trickster	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 knows	punct
8	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	9 knows	nsubj
9	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 trickster	parataxis
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 trick	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 trick	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 trick	det
13	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 knows	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 agreed	punct
15	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	16 agreed	nsubj
16	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 knows	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	19 fooled	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 fooled	aux:pass
19	fooled	fool	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 agreed	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 given	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 given	cc
22	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	24 given	nsubj:pass
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 given	aux:pass
24	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 knows	conj
25	back	back	ADV	_	24 given	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 trickster	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	a magician	a honest trickster	tree rules
2	know	present	everybody		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	present	magician	a trick	tree rules
4	agree speech: agree	past	everybody		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	fool not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	everybody not said here		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»
6	give back	present · passive		everything	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:4.

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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