The Aesop for Children, The Animals and the Plague, sentence 2

Many died, and those who lived were so ill, that they cared for neither food nor drink, and dragged themselves about listlessly.

Who acts: Many, those, animals · What happens: die, live, be, care, drag · To what, where: animals

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Animals and the Plague. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many, those, animals), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 died	nsubj
2	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ill	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 ill	cc
5	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	10 ill	nsubj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 lived	nsubj
7	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 those	acl:relcl
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 ill	cop
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 ill	advmod
10	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 died	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cared	punct
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 cared	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 cared	nsubj
14	cared	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 died	conj
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 food	case
16	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	17 food	det
17	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cared	obl
18	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	19 drink	cc
19	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 food	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 dragged	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 dragged	cc
22	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 died	conj
23	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 dragged	obj
24	about	about	ADV	_	25 listlessly	advmod
25	listlessly	listlessly	ADV	_	22 dragged	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 died	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	die	past	Many			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	live	past				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	those		ill property	tree rules
4	care	past	animals = animal		for neither food nor drink	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for food=Theme
5	drag	past	Many not said here	animals = animal	listlessly property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme

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: «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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