Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 5, sentence 29

_Kromyeshny_, or _kromyeshnaya_, is sometimes used by itself to signify hell.

Who acts: kromyeshnaya · What happens: use, signify · To what, where: Kromyeshny, hell

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kromyeshnaya), 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	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 Kromyeshny	punct
2	Kromyeshny	Kromyeshny	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 used	nsubj:pass
3	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 Kromyeshny	punct
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 kromyeshnaya	punct
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 kromyeshnaya	cc
6	_	_	PUNCT	_	7 kromyeshnaya	punct
7	kromyeshnaya	kromyeshnaya	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Kromyeshny	appos
8	_	_	PUNCT	_	7 kromyeshnaya	punct
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Kromyeshny	punct
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 used	aux:pass
11	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	12 used	advmod
12	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 itself	case
14	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 used	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 signify	mark
16	signify	signify	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 used	advcl
17	hell	hell	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 signify	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present · passive	kromyeshnaya	Kromyeshny				sometimes property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
2	signify	to-infinitive	kromyeshnaya not said here	hell					vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot hell=Theme

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 Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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