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title: O'er hills, dales, and rocks, Away be it whirl'd, Till the golden lo… — 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 60

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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:pg11027:6:60
# text = O'er hills, dales, and rocks, Away be it whirl'd, Till the golden locks Are all comb'd and curl'd!"
1	O'er	O'er	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	dales	dale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	Away	away	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	whirl	whirl	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'd	'd	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	Till	till	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	locks	lock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
19	Are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	comb	comb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	'd	'd	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	curl	curl	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | infinitive | O'er hills and dales and rocks |  |  |  |  | whirl *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | the golden locks |  |  |  | till all comb |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **curl** | 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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