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
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)
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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 pair | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 pair | det |
| 3 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 pistols | case |
| 5 | pistols | pistol | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pair | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 truncheon | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 policeman | det |
| 8 | policeman | policeman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 truncheon | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 policeman | case |
| 10 | truncheon | truncheon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pistols | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sets | punct |
| 12 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sets | amod |
| 13 | sets | set | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pistols | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 handcuffs | case |
| 15 | handcuffs | handcuffs | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 sets | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 bandages | punct |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 bandages | det |
| 18 | bandages | bandage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pistols | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sticking | cc |
| 20 | sticking | sticking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bandages | conj |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 plaster | punct |
| 22 | plaster | plaster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bandages | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 flask | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 flask | cc |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 flask | det |
| 26 | flask | flask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bandages | conj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 case | cc |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 case | det |
| 29 | sandwich | sandwich | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 case | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 sandwich | punct |
| 31 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 flask | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pair | punct |
| 33 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 pair | punct |
| 34 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 36 truncheon | punct |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 truncheon | det |
| 36 | truncheon | truncheon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pair | appos |
| 37 | = | = | SYM | _ | 42 club | punct |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 policeman | det |
| 39 | policeman | policeman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 club | nmod:poss |
| 40 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 39 policeman | case |
| 41 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 club | amod |
| 42 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 truncheon | conj |
| 43 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 36 truncheon | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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.
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