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title: The bandicoots were then specially ordered for the business; they, w… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The bandicoots were then specially ordered for the business; they, with their hard teeth, made a small slit in the wall for a rat to pass and repass without difficulty. Who acts: bandicoots, rat. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, with its depe
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 7

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The bandicoots were then specially ordered for the business; they, with their hard teeth, made a small slit in the wall for a rat to pass and repass without difficulty.

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**Who acts:** bandicoots, rat · **What happens:** order, make, pass, repass · **To what, where:** bandicoots, small slit, wall

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bandicoots, rat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg7128:846`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7128:15:7
# text = The bandicoots were then specially ordered for the business; they, with their hard teeth, made a small slit in the wall for a rat to pass and repass without difficulty.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bandicoots	bandicoot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
5	specially	specially	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	ordered	order	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	slit	slit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	rat	rat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	repass	repass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	_
32	without	without	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **order** | past · passive |  | the bandicoots |  |  | then | for the business; specially *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for business=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **make** | past | bandicoots *= bandicoot* | a small slit |  | the wall |  | with bandicoots's hard teeth | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset slit=Product |
| 3 | **pass** | to-infinitive | a rat | a small slit *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **repass** | infinitive | a rat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | without difficulty | tree rules |

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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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**Text:** «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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