The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 2, sentence 53

At this very instant there was such a loud knocking at the gate, that Blue Beard made a sudden stop.

Who acts: this, Blue Beard · What happens: be, make · To what, where: instant loud knocking, sudden stop

This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, Blue Beard), 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	At	at	ADP	_	10 knocking	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 knocking	nsubj
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 instant	advmod
4	instant	instant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 knocking	amod
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 was	expl
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 knocking	cop
7	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	10 knocking	det:predet
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 knocking	det
9	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 knocking	amod
10	knocking	knocking	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 made	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 gate	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 gate	det
13	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 knocking	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 made	punct
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 made	mark
16	Blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Beard	amod
17	Beard	Beard	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 made	nsubj
18	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 stop	det
20	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 stop	amod
21	stop	stop	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 made	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	this			such instant loud knocking		at the gate	tree rules
2	make	past	Blue Beard	a sudden stop					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stop=Product

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 Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (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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