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title: Tomorrow we must set to work, ourselves." — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Tomorrow we must set to work, ourselves." Who acts: we. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lark and Her Young Ones, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Lark and Her Young Ones, sentence 13

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Tomorrow we must set to work, ourselves."

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** set, work · **To what, where:** ourselves

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lark and Her Young Ones. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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:pg19994:130:13
# text = Tomorrow we must set to work, ourselves."
1	Tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | must | we |  |  |  | tomorrow |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **work** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | ourselves |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: 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:** «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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