The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 96

The foal which eats the oats is that which was foaled in the morning; the foal which eats the wheat is that which was foaled at noon; and the foal which eats the barley is that which was foaled at night.”

Who acts: foal · What happens: eat, be · To what, where: oats, foal, wheat, barley

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foal), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 foal	det
2	foal	foal	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 foaled	nsubj:pass
3	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 eats	nsubj
4	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 foal	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 oats	det
6	oats	oat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eats	obj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 foaled	cop
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 foaled	mark
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 foaled	nsubj:pass
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 foaled	aux:pass
11	foaled	foal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 morning	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 morning	det
14	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 foaled	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 foaled	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 foal	det
17	foal	foal	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 foaled	nsubj:pass
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 eats	nsubj
19	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 foal	acl:relcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 wheat	det
21	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 eats	obj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 foaled	cop
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 foaled	mark
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 foaled	nsubj:pass
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 foaled	aux:pass
26	foaled	foal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 foaled	conj
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 noon	case
28	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 foaled	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 foaled	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 foaled	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 foal	det
32	foal	foal	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 foaled	nsubj:pass
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 eats	nsubj
34	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 foal	acl:relcl
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 barley	det
36	barley	barley	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 eats	obj
37	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 foaled	cop
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 foaled	mark
39	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 foaled	nsubj:pass
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 foaled	aux:pass
41	foaled	foal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 foaled	conj
42	at	at	ADP	_	43 night	case
43	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 foaled	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 foaled	punct
45	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 foaled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	the foal	the oats			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oat=Patient
2	is	present · passive		the foal	morning	foal property	tree rules
3	eat	present	the foal	the wheat			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheat=Patient
4	is	present · passive		the foal	noon	foal property	tree rules
5	eat	present	the foal	the barley			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent barley=Patient
6	is	present · passive		the foal	night	foal property	tree rules

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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