--- title: A magician in Dublin made a girl's watch vanish from a box and appea… — The magician's trick explained · tree and pragmatics description: 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. 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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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:448-the-magicians-trick-explained.lesson:25 # text = 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. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 448-the-magicians-trick-explained.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 magician magician NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Dublin Dublin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:det 7 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 watch watch NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 vanish vanish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 11 from from ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 appear appear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 pocket pocket NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 worried worried ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 23 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 obl _ _ 25 second second ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 24 advmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 straight straight ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 back back ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 bow bow NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The magician's trick explained, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/448-the-magicians-trick-explained/24/) - next →: [The magician's trick explained, 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/448-the-magicians-trick-explained/26/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/448-the-magicians-trick-explained/)