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title: Hansel and Grethel — Grimm's Fairy Stories · full text with trees · page 2
description: Hansel and Grethel, «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: Once upon a time there dwelt near a large wood a poor woodcutter, with his wife and two children by his former marriage, a little boy called Hansel, and a
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# Hansel and Grethel · page 2

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- [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/8/101/) — And there is no boat, either," said Grethel; "but there swims a white duck, and I will ask her to help us over."
- [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/8/102/) — And she sang:
- [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/8/103/) — "Little Duck, good little Duck, Grethel and Hansel, here we stand; There is neither stile nor bridge, Take us on your back to land."
- [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/8/104/) — So the duck came to them, and Hansel sat himself on, and bade his sister sit behind him. "
- [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/8/105/) — No," answered Grethel, "that will be too much for the duck; she shall take us over one at a time."
- [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/8/106/) — This the good little bird did, and when both were happily arrived on the other side, and had gone a little way, they came to a well-known wood, which they knew the better every step they went, and at last they perceived their father's house.
- [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/8/107/) — Then they began to run, and, bursting into the house, they fell into their father's arms.
- [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/8/108/) — He had not had one happy hour since he had left the children in the forest; and his wife was dead.
- [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/8/109/) — Grethel shook her apron, and the pearls and precious stones rolled out upon the floor, and Hansel threw down one handful after the other out of his pocket.
- [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/8/110/) — Then all their sorrows were ended, and they lived together in great happiness.
- [111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/8/111/) — My tale is done.
- [112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/8/112/) — There runs a mouse; whoever catches her may make a great, great cap out of her fur.

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