The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 76

It is more precious than emeralds, and dearer than fine opals.

Who acts: pain · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pain), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 precious	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 precious	cop
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 precious	advmod
4	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 emeralds	case
6	emeralds	emerald	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 precious	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 dearer	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 dearer	cc
9	dearer	dear	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 precious	conj
10	than	than	ADP	_	12 opals	case
11	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 opals	amod
12	opals	opal	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 dearer	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 precious	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	pain					than emeralds; precious property	tree rules
2	be		pain not said here					than fine opals	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 Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Project Gutenberg book 902 (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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