The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 36

Christian needed no pressing, but did full justice both to the food and drink, and not least to the latter.

Who acts: Christian · What happens: need, press, do, not least · To what, where: full justice

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Christian), 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	Christian	Christian	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 needed	nsubj
2	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 pressing	det
4	pressing	press	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 needed	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 did	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 did	cc
7	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 needed	conj
8	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 justice	amod
9	justice	justice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 did	obj
10	both	both	ADV	_	7 did	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 food	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 food	det
13	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 did	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 drink	cc
15	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 food	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 least	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 least	cc
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 least	advmod
19	least	least	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 needed	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 latter	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 latter	det
22	latter	latter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 least	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 needed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	need	past	Christian			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	press	gerund	Christian not said here			vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	do	past	Christian not said here	full justice	to the food and drink; both property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent justice=Eventuality
4	not least	infinitive	Christian not said here		to the latter	tree rules

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: «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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