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title: ‘O’er hill and o’er dale So happy I roam, Work light and live well,… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘O’er hill and o’er dale So happy I roam, Work light and live well, All the world is my home; Then who so blythe, so merry as I?’ Who acts: I, world. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Hans in Luck, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 85

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‘O’er hill and o’er dale So happy I roam, Work light and live well, All the world is my home; Then who so blythe, so merry as I?’

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**Who acts:** I, world · **What happens:** roam, work, live, be · **To what, where:** light, home

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Hans in Luck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, world), 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:pg2591:3:85
# text = ‘O’er hill and o’er dale So happy I roam, Work light and live well, All the world is my home; Then who so blythe, so merry as I?’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	O’er	O'er	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	o’er	o'er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	dale	dale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	So	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	roam	roam	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Work	work	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
13	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	live	live	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
16	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	20	det:predet	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
25	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
26	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
28	blythe	blythe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	_
32	as	as	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roam** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **work** | present | I *not said here* | light |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent light=Material |
| 3 | **live** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | present | all world | my home |  |  |  |  | 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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