Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Goose-girl, sentence 47
"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 · What happens: be, curl
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.
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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 hills | punct |
| 2 | O'er | O'er | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 hills | compound |
| 3 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 whirl | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dales | punct |
| 5 | dales | dale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hills | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 rocks | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 rocks | cc |
| 8 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hills | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 hills | punct |
| 10 | Away | away | ADV | _ | 3 hills | advmod |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 whirl | cop |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 whirl | nsubj |
| 13 | whirl | whirl | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | 'd | 'd | PUNCT | _ | 13 whirl | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 comb | punct |
| 16 | Till | till | ADP | _ | 22 comb | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 locks | det |
| 18 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 locks | amod |
| 19 | locks | lock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 comb | nsubj |
| 20 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 comb | cop |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 comb | det |
| 22 | comb | comb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 whirl | parataxis |
| 23 | 'd | 'd | PUNCT | _ | 22 comb | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 curl | cc |
| 25 | curl | curl | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 whirl | conj |
| 26 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 curl | ccomp |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 whirl | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 whirl | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | 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 |
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: «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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