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title: Or wilt have help wi' thy work? — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Or wilt have help wi' thy work? Who acts: thy. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 74

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Or wilt have help wi' thy work?

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**Who acts:** thy · **What happens:** have, work · **To what, where:** help wi

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thy), 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:pg14241:17:74
# text = Or wilt have help wi' thy work?
1	Or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	wilt	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	wi	wi	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | future |  | help wi |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wi=Patient |
| 2 | **work** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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