Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew, sentence 57

Now at the gate each suitor was provided with a number, and all were placed in rows immediately on their arrival, six in each row, and so closely packed together that they could not move their arms; and that was a prudent arrangement, for they would certainly have come to blows, had they been able, merely because one of them stood before the other.

Who acts: suitors, that, one · What happens: provide, place, pack, not move, be, come · To what, where: suitor, gate, all, rows, arms, prudent arrangement

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (suitors, that, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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