Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 88

But we may comfort ourselves by the certainty that the soul, when acting upon its own impulses, is wiser than we are; it is the body that makes it stupid.

Who acts: we, notice, body · What happens: comfort, act, be, make · To what, where: ourselves, body, notice

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, notice, body), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 comfort	cc
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 comfort	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 comfort	aux
4	comfort	comfort	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 comfort	obj
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 certainty	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 certainty	det
8	certainty	certainty	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 comfort	obl
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 soul	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 soul	det
11	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 certainty	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 acting	punct
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 acting	advmod
14	acting	act	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 comfort	advcl
15	upon	upon	ADP	_	18 impulses	case
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 impulses	nmod:poss
17	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 impulses	amod
18	impulses	impulse	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 acting	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 wiser	punct
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 wiser	cop
21	wiser	wise	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 comfort	parataxis
22	than	than	SCONJ	_	24 are	mark
23	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 are	nsubj
24	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 wiser	advcl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 body	punct
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 body	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 body	cop
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 body	det
29	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 comfort	parataxis
30	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 makes	nsubj
31	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 body	acl:relcl
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 makes	obj
33	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 makes	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 comfort	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	comfort	may	we	ourselves	by the certainty the soul	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus ourselves=Experiencer
2	act	gerund	we not said here		upon notice's own impulses	vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present			wise property	tree rules
4	be	present	we			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a	present	notice	the body		tree rules
6	make	present	the body	notice	stupid property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

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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