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title: At this very instant there was such a loud knocking at the gate, tha… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, \_thomas Bodkin\_, part 2, sentence 53

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

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

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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.

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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:pg29021:8:53
# text = At this very instant there was such a loud knocking at the gate, that Blue Beard made a sudden stop.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	nsubj	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	instant	instant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	10	det:predet	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	knocking	knocking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	Blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Beard	Beard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	stop	stop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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 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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