The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 72

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

Who acts: Blue · What happens: be, make · To what, where: loud knocking, instant, gate

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Blue Beard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Blue), 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	_	4 instant	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 instant	nsubj
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 instant	advmod
4	instant	instant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 knocking	obl
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	root	root
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	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 made	obj
15	Blue	Blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 made	nsubj
16	Beard	Beard	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Blue	flat
17	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 gate	acl:relcl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 stop	det
19	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 stop	amod
20	stop	stop	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 made	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 knocking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		such loud knocking		instant		at the gate	tree rules
2	make	past	Blue	the gate					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset that=Beneficiary 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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