It is usually a preposition.
It can be an adverb in the truncated, superfluous or idiomatic form (fell to, turned to) as seen in the still common form "came to" (awoke, revived, came to his senses).
The construction is now much more common in British English.
*The homophone "too" is an adverb.
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