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title: O’er hills, dales, and rocks, Away be it whirl’d Till the silvery lo… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: O’er hills, dales, and rocks, Away be it whirl’d Till the silvery locks Are all comb’d and curl’d! Who acts: O’er hills, silvery locks. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Goose-girl, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Goose-girl, sentence 49

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

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**Who acts:** O’er hills, silvery locks · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** comb ’d

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» 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, silvery 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:pg2591:15:49
# text = O’er hills, dales, and rocks, Away be it whirl’d Till the silvery 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	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	Till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	silvery	silvery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	locks	lock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
18	Are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
20	comb	comb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’d	'd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	xcomp	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	curl	curl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’d	'd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	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 a** | present | the silvery locks | all comb ’d and curl ’d |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:** «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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