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title: Then a pair of pistols, a policeman's truncheon, several sets of han… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 1: Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then a pair of pistols, a policeman's truncheon, several sets of handcuffs, some bandages and sticking-plaster, and a flask and a sandwich-case.» (a truncheon = a policeman's short club) A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 1: The Return of Ulysses (dressing for battl
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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 18

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Then a pair of pistols, a policeman's truncheon, several sets of handcuffs, some bandages and sticking-plaster, and a flask and a sandwich-case.» (a truncheon = a policeman's short club)

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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: 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:18
# text = Then a pair of pistols, a policeman's truncheon, several sets of handcuffs, some bandages and sticking-plaster, and a flask and a sandwich-case.» (a truncheon = a policeman's short club)
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	pistols	pistol	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	policeman	policeman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	truncheon	truncheon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	sets	set	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	handcuffs	handcuffs	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	bandages	bandage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	sticking	sticking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
22	plaster	plaster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:appos
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	flask	flask	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	sandwich	sandwich	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	_
31	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct
33	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
34	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	36	punct	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	truncheon	truncheon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
37	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	42	punct	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	policeman	policeman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod:poss	_	_
40	's	's	PART	POS	_	39	case	_	_
41	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	club	club	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	_
43	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	36	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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:18`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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