Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Goose-girl, sentence 81

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 · What happens: be · To what, where: comb ’d

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.

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	O’er	O'er	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 hills	compound
2	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 whirl	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dales	punct
4	dales	dale	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hills	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 rocks	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 rocks	cc
7	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hills	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 hills	punct
9	Away	away	ADV	_	2 hills	advmod
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 whirl	cop
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 whirl	nsubj
12	whirl	whirl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	’d	'd	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 whirl	obj
14	Till	till	SCONJ	_	21 ’d	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 locks	det
16	silvery	silvery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 locks	amod
17	locks	lock	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 ’d	nsubj
18	Are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 ’d	cop
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 ’d	det
20	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ’d	compound
21	’d	'd	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 whirl	xcomp
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 ’d	cc
23	curl	curl	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 ’d	compound
24	’d	'd	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ’d	conj
25	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 whirl	punct

Pragmatics

#	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

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: «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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