Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 76

I want to give that poor man something, but I've no small change."

Who acts: I · What happens: want, give, have · To what, where: something, poor man, small change

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 want	nsubj
2	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 give	mark
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 want	xcomp
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 man	det
6	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	iobj
8	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 give	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 've	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 've	cc
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 've	nsubj
12	've	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 want	parataxis
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 change	det
14	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 change	amod
15	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 've	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 want	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	want	present	I			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	give not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	something	that poor man	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent man=Recipient something=Theme
3	have	present	I	no small change		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent change=Patient

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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