--- title: The chasing engine is full of «Men like ancient warders, waving halb… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 4: T… · tree and pragmatics description: The chasing engine is full of «Men like ancient warders, waving halberds; policemen in their helmets, waving truncheons; and shabbily dressed men in pot-hats ... plain-clothes detectives ... waving revolvers and walking-sticks» (halberd = long pole with an axe-blade; truncheon = police club; pot-hat --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/55-willows-ch8-part4-the-chase-and-the-tunnel/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/55-willows-ch8-part4-the-chase-and-the-tunnel/) / 10 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 4: Toad's Adventures (the chase, the tunnel and the night wood), sentence 10 The chasing engine is full of «Men like ancient warders, waving halberds; policemen in their helmets, waving truncheons; and shabbily dressed men in pot-hats ... plain-clothes detectives ... waving revolvers and walking-sticks» (halberd = long pole with an axe-blade; truncheon = police club; pot-hat = bowler hat). **Who acts:** chasing engine, Men · **What happens:** be, wave, dress · **To what, where:** halberds, truncheons, revolvers This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 4: Toad's Adventures (the chase, the tunnel and the night wood)» of the books 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 (chasing engine, Men), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:055-willows-ch8-part4-the-chase-and-the-tunnel.lesson:10 # text = The chasing engine is full of «Men like ancient warders, waving halberds; policemen in their helmets, waving truncheons; and shabbily dressed men in pot-hats ... plain-clothes detectives ... waving revolvers and walking-sticks» (halberd = long pole with an axe-blade; truncheon = police club; pot-hat = bowler hat). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 055-willows-ch8-part4-the-chase-and-the-tunnel.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 chasing chasing NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 engine engine NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 « « PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 8 Men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 9 like like ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 ancient ancient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 warders warder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 waving wave VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advcl 14 halberds halberd NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 policemen policeman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:conj 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 helmets helmet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nmod 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 waving wave VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 conj _ _ 22 truncheons truncheon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 shabbily shabbily ADV RB Degree=Pos 27 advmod _ _ 26 dressed dress VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 amod _ _ 27 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 pot pot NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 30 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 29 punct _ _ 31 hats hat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ _ 32 ... ... PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 plain plain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 33 punct _ _ 35 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 36 compound _ _ 36 detectives detective NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=27:conj 37 ... ... PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 waving wave VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 39 revolvers revolver NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obj _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 41 walking walking NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 42 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 41 punct _ _ 43 sticks stick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 conj _ _ 44 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 45 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 46 punct _ _ 46 halberd halberd NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ _ 47 = = PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 48 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 pole pole NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 conj _ _ 50 with with ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 51 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 52 axe axe NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 compound _ _ 53 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 52 punct _ _ 54 blade blade NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 nmod _ _ 55 ; ; PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 56 truncheon truncheon NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 conj _ _ 57 = = PUNCT , _ 59 punct _ _ 58 police police NOUN NN Number=Sing 59 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=59:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 59 club club NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 conj _ _ 60 ; ; PUNCT , _ 63 punct _ _ 61 pot pot NOUN NN Number=Sing 63 compound _ _ 62 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 61 punct _ _ 63 hat hat NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 conj _ _ 64 = = PUNCT , _ 66 punct _ _ 65 bowler bowler NOUN NN Number=Sing 66 compound _ _ 66 hat hat NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 conj _ _ 67 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 43 punct _ _ 68 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the chasing engine | | | | | of Men like ancient warders and policemen in policemen's helmets and dressed men in pot hats and clothes detectives; full *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **wave** *in a quote* | gerund | Men like ancient warders and policemen in policemen's helmets and dressed men in pot hats and clothes detectives *not said here* | halberds | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent halberd=Patient | | 3 | **wave** *in a quote* | gerund | Men like ancient warders and policemen in policemen's helmets and dressed men in pot hats and clothes detectives *not said here* | truncheons | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truncheon=Patient | | 4 | **dress** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **wave** *in a quote* | gerund | the chasing engine *not said here* | revolvers and walking sticks | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent revolver=Patient | 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:books:055-willows-ch8-part4-the-chase-and-the-tunnel.lesson:10`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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