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title: Now at the gate each suitor was provided with a number, and all were… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: 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, 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew, sentence 57

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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.

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

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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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**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:pg27200:28:57
# text = 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.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	suitor	suitor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	provided	provide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	rows	row	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
19	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	arrival	arrival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	appos	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	det	_	_
27	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
31	closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	packed	pack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
33	together	together	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
35	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
36	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	38	advmod	_	_
38	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	advcl	_	_
39	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	47	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
43	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	47	nsubj	_	_
44	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	prudent	prudent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	arrangement	arrangement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
49	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	54	mark	_	_
50	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
51	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
52	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
53	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	54	aux	_	_
54	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	47	conj	_	_
55	to	to	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	blows	blow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
58	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	61	aux	_	_
59	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	61	nsubj	_	_
60	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	61	cop	_	_
61	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
63	merely	merely	ADV	RB	_	61	advmod	_	_
64	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	68	mark	_	_
65	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	68	nsubj	_	_
66	of	of	ADP	IN	_	67	case	_	_
67	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	65	nmod	_	_
68	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
69	before	before	ADP	IN	_	71	case	_	_
70	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	71	det	_	_
71	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	68	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
72	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **provide** | past · passive |  | each suitor |  | the gate | now | with a number | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with number=Theme |
| 2 | **place** | past · passive |  | all |  | rows |  | on suitors's arrival; immediately *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on arrival=Destination |
| 3 | **pack** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | closely, together *property* | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **move** | could | suitors *= suitor* | suitors's arms |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent arm=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | past | that | a prudent arrangement |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **come** | would · perfect | suitors *= suitor* |  |  | blows |  | certainly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to blow=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **is** | past · perfect | suitors *= suitor* |  |  |  |  | able, merely *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **stand** | past | one of suitors |  |  | the other |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before other=Location |
| 9 | **arrive** |  | suitors *= suitor* |  |  |  |  |  | nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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