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title: "And if you keep them carefully, Then God will you reward; But if yo… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "And if you keep them carefully, Then God will you reward; But if you otherwise should deal, God will your deeds regard." Who acts: you, God. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 42

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"And if you keep them carefully, Then God will you reward; But if you otherwise should deal, God will your deeds regard."

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**Who acts:** you, God · **What happens:** keep, reward, deal, regard · **To what, where:** Children

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, God), 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:pg14241:25:42
# text = "And if you keep them carefully, Then God will you reward; But if you otherwise should deal, God will your deeds regard."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
10	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	reward	reward	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
15	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	deal	deal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
23	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
24	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	deeds	deed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	regard	regard	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** *in a quote* | present | you | Children *= child* |  |  |  | carefully *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **reward** *in a quote* | future | God |  |  |  | then |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **deal** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | should | you |  |  |  |  | otherwise *property* | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **regard** *in a quote* | future | God |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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