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title: ‘Fall to work this very minute, but Heaven help thee if thou dost no… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Fall to work this very minute, but Heaven help thee if thou dost not brew the ale strong.’ Who acts: Heaven, thou. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 3, sentence 39

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‘Fall to work this very minute, but Heaven help thee if thou dost not brew the ale strong.’

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**Who acts:** Heaven, thou · **What happens:** work, help, not brew · **To what, where:** thee, ale

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, 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 (Heaven, thou), 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:pg540:46:39
# text = ‘Fall to work this very minute, but Heaven help thee if thou dost not brew the ale strong.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	obj	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nsubj	_	_
15	dost	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	brew	brew	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	ale	ale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | minute |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **help** | present | Heaven | thee |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **not** **brew** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · do-support | thou | the ale |  |  |  | strong *property* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ale=Product |

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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:** «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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