--- title: "Work as thou will Thou 'lt never do well; Work as thou mayst Thou '… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: "Work as thou will Thou 'lt never do well; Work as thou mayst Thou 'lt never gain grist; For harm and mischance and Yallery Brown Thou 'st let out thyself from under the stone." Who acts: you, lt. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, with its d --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/18/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [More English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/) / [More English Fairy Tales, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/18/) / 12 # More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 12 "Work as thou will Thou 'lt never do well; Work as thou mayst Thou 'lt never gain grist; For harm and mischance and Yallery Brown Thou 'st let out thyself from under the stone." **Who acts:** you, lt · **What happens:** not do, not gain, let out · **To what, where:** Work, grist, thyself, stone This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, lt), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg14241:18:12 # text = "Work as thou will Thou 'lt never do well; Work as thou mayst Thou 'lt never gain grist; For harm and mischance and Yallery Brown Thou 'st let out thyself from under the stone." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 3 as as ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 4 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 8 nsubj _ _ 5 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 6 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 ' 's PART POS _ 6 case _ SpaceAfter=No 8 lt lt NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 9 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 advcl _ _ 11 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 10 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 13 Work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 as as ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 15 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 19 nsubj _ _ 16 mayst may AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 17 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 ' 's PART POS _ 17 case _ SpaceAfter=No 19 lt lt NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 20 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 gain gain VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 22 grist grist NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 24 For for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 harm harm NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 mischance mischance NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 Yallery Yallery PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 30 Brown Brown PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 flat _ _ 31 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 29 appos _ _ 32 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 st St PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 flat _ _ 34 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 35 out out ADP RP _ 34 compound:prt _ _ 36 thyself thyself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes|Style=Arch 34 obj _ _ 37 from from ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 under under ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 " " PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **do** *in a quote* | present | you *not said here* | Work as Thou's lt | | | | as Thou's lt; Work *obl*; well *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **not** **gain** *in a quote* | present | Thou's lt *not said here* | grist | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grist=Theme | | 3 | **let out** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | thyself | | the stone | | for harm and mischance and Yallery | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent thyself=Theme for harm=Asset | 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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/18/11/) - next →: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/18/13/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/18/)