More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 41

Thou shouldn't have left me alone, for I liked thee better than everything!"

Who acts: Thou, I · What happens: not leave, like · To what, where: me, thee

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thou, 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	Thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	5 left	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 left	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 left	advmod
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 left	aux
5	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 left	iobj
7	alone	alone	ADV	_	5 left	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 liked	punct
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 liked	mark
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 liked	nsubj
11	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 left	advcl
12	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	11 liked	obj
13	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 liked	xcomp
14	than	than	ADP	_	15 everything	case
15	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	13 better	obl
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 left	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not leave	should · perfect	Thou		me			alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	like	past	I	thee				good property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot thou=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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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