The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 84

In his infancy he had been placed in the charge of one of the great ladies of the Court, who, according to the prevailing custom, acted first as his head nurse and then as his governess.

What happens: place, accord, prevail, act · To what, where: Prince, infancy

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 infancy	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 infancy	nmod:poss
3	infancy	infancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 placed	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 placed	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 placed	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 placed	aux:pass
7	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 charge	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 charge	det
10	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 placed	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 one	case
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 charge	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 ladies	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 ladies	det
15	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 ladies	amod
16	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 one	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 Court	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Court	det
19	Court	Court	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 ladies	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 custom	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 custom	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 custom	punct
23	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 custom	case
24	to	to	ADP	_	23 according	fixed
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 custom	det
26	prevailing	prevail	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 custom	amod
27	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ladies	appos
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 acted	punct
29	acted	act	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 placed	conj
30	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	29 acted	advmod
31	as	as	ADP	_	34 nurse	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 nurse	nmod:poss
33	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 nurse	compound
34	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 acted	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 governess	cc
36	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	39 governess	advmod
37	as	as	ADP	_	39 governess	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 governess	nmod:poss
39	governess	governess	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 nurse	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	place	past · perfect · passive	Prince	Prince's infancy	in the charge of one of the great ladies of the Court	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in infancy=Destination
2	accord	gerund				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
3	prevail	gerund				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	act	past			as Prince's head nurse and Prince's governess; first property	vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as nurse=Attribute

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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