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title: "O'er hills, dales, and rocks, Away be it whirl'd, Till the golden l… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: "O'er hills, dales, and rocks, Away be it whirl'd, Till the golden locks Are all comb'd and curl'd!" Who acts: O'er hills, golden locks. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Goose-girl, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Goose-girl, sentence 47

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"O'er hills, dales, and rocks, Away be it whirl'd, Till the golden locks Are all comb'd and curl'd!"

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**Who acts:** O'er hills, golden locks · **What happens:** be, curl

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Goose-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (O'er hills, golden locks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg11027:6:47
# text = "O'er hills, dales, and rocks, Away be it whirl'd, Till the golden locks Are all comb'd and curl'd!"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	O'er	O'er	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	dales	dale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	Away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	whirl	whirl	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'd	'd	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	Till	till	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	locks	lock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
20	Are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	comb	comb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	'd	'd	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	curl	curl	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive | O'er hills and dales and rocks |  |  |  |  | whirl *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the golden locks |  |  |  | till all comb |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **curl** *in a quote* | infinitive | O'er hills and dales and rocks *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**Text:** «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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