Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 54
Not a breath nor a sound could be heard of him.
What happens: hear · To what, where: breath
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 breath | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 breath | det |
| 3 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 sound | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 sound | det |
| 6 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 breath | conj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 heard | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 heard | aux:pass |
| 9 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 heard | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | could · passive | a breath nor a sound | of Tsarévich | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
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: «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (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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