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title: The plunging continued thus without ceasing till midnight. — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The plunging continued thus without ceasing till midnight. Who acts: plunging. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Ratcatcher, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 43

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The plunging continued thus without ceasing till midnight.

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**Who acts:** plunging · **What happens:** continue, cease

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Ratcatcher. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plunging), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg540:32:43
# text = The plunging continued thus without ceasing till midnight.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	plunging	plunging	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	ceasing	cease	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
7	till	till	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | past | the plunging |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cease** | gerund | the plunging *not said here* |  |  |  | midnight |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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**Text:** «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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