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title: At dusk the Rat dresses everybody for the expedition: a belt, a swor… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 1: Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: At dusk the Rat dresses everybody for the expedition: a belt, a sword, a cutlass, a pair of pistols, a policeman's truncheon, handcuffs, bandages, a flask and a sandwich-case each. Who acts: Rat. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 1: The Return of Ulysses (dressing 
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 1: The Return of Ulysses (dressing for battle, the dark passage and «Good Toad, modest Toad»), sentence 0

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At dusk the Rat dresses everybody for the expedition: a belt, a sword, a cutlass, a pair of pistols, a policeman's truncheon, handcuffs, bandages, a flask and a sandwich-case each.

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**Who acts:** Rat · **What happens:** dress · **To what, where:** everybody

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 1: The Return of Ulysses (dressing for battle, the dark passage and «Good Toad, modest Toad»)» 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 (Rat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:070-willows-ch12-part1-the-secret-passage-at-night.lesson:0
# text = At dusk the Rat dresses everybody for the expedition: a belt, a sword, a cutlass, a pair of pistols, a policeman's truncheon, handcuffs, bandages, a flask and a sandwich-case each.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 070-willows-ch12-part1-the-secret-passage-at-night.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	dusk	dusk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	dresses	dress	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	5	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	expedition	expedition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	belt	belt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	cutlass	cutlass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	pistols	pistol	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	policeman	policeman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	's	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	truncheon	truncheon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:appos
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	handcuffs	handcuffs	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	bandages	bandage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	flask	flask	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
38	sandwich	sandwich	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
39	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	38	punct	_	_
40	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
41	each	each	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	40	advmod	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dress** | present | the Rat | everybody |  |  | dusk | for the expedition; a belt and a sword and a cutlass and a pair of pistols and a policeman's truncheon and handcuffs and bandages and a flask and a sandwich case *obl* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everybody=Patient |

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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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**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:070-willows-ch12-part1-the-secret-passage-at-night.lesson:0`.

**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, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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