The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 43
The plunging continued thus without ceasing till midnight.
Who acts: plunging · What happens: continue, cease
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.
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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 plunging | det |
| 2 | plunging | plunging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 continued | nsubj |
| 3 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 continued | advmod |
| 5 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 6 ceasing | mark |
| 6 | ceasing | cease | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 continued | advcl |
| 7 | till | till | ADP | _ | 8 midnight | case |
| 8 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ceasing | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | 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 |
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.
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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