Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 55

A few glasses were drank, not enough to cloud the brain, but enough to loosen Martin's tongue.

What happens: drink, loosen · To what, where: few glasses, tongue

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4. 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.

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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 glasses	det
2	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 glasses	amod
3	glasses	glass	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 drank	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 drank	aux:pass
5	drank	drink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 enough	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 enough	advmod
8	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 drank	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 cloud	mark
10	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 enough	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 brain	det
12	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cloud	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 enough	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 enough	cc
15	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 drank	parataxis
16	to	to	PART	_	17 loosen	mark
17	loosen	loosen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 enough	advcl
18	Martin	Martin	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 tongue	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 Martin	case
20	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 loosen	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 drank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	past · passive		a few glasses					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	loosen	to-infinitive		Martin's tongue					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tongue=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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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