Complex sentence: Hearing this plan, Jesse's mother, Mae, seizes a shotgun and hits the stranger on the head suddenly the village constable appears and, charging Mae of murder, takes her-and Winnie-back to Treegap.
Split into simpler sentences: Hearing this plan, Jesse's mother, Mae, seizes a shotgun and hits the stranger on the head. Suddenly the village constable appears, charged Mae of murder, and took her-and Winnie-back to Treegap.