Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 7

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

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.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, 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

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.

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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