--- title: The Snow Queen, part 1 — Andersen's Fairy Tales · full text with trees · page 2 description: The Snow Queen, part 1, «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: FIRST STORY. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/11/page/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Andersen's Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/) / The Snow Queen, part 1 # The Snow Queen, part 1 · page 2 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/11/) **2** - [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/11/101/) — She was tall and of slender figure, and of a dazzling whiteness. - [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/11/102/) — It was the Snow Queen. - [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/11/103/) — “We have travelled fast,” said she; “but it is freezingly cold. - [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/11/104/) — Come under my bearskin.” - [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/11/105/) — And she put him in the sledge beside her, wrapped the fur round him, and he felt as though he were sinking in a snow-wreath. - [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/11/106/) — “Are you still cold?” asked she; and then she kissed his forehead. - [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/11/107/) — Ah! it was colder than ice; it penetrated to his very heart, which was already almost a frozen lump; it seemed to him as if he were about to die--but a moment more and it was quite congenial to him, and he did not remark the cold that was around him. - [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/11/108/) — “My sledge! - [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/11/109/) — Do not forget my sledge!” - [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/11/110/) — It was the first thing he thought of. - [111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/11/111/) — It was there tied to one of the white chickens, who flew along with it on his back behind the large sledge. - [112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/11/112/) — The Snow Queen kissed Kay once more, and then he forgot little Gerda, grandmother, and all whom he had left at his home. - [113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/11/113/) — “Now you will have no more kisses,” said she, “or else I should kiss you to death!” - [114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/11/114/) — Kay looked at her. - [115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/11/115/) — She was very beautiful; a more clever, or a more lovely countenance he could not fancy to himself; and she no longer appeared of ice as before, when she sat outside the window, and beckoned to him; in his eyes she was perfect, he did not fear her at all, and told her that he could calculate in his head and with fractions, even; that he knew the number of square miles there were in the different countries, and how many inhabitants they contained; and she smiled while he spoke. - [116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/11/116/) — It then seemed to him as if what he knew was not enough, and he looked upwards in the large huge empty space above him, and on she flew with him; flew high over the black clouds, while the storm moaned and whistled as though it were singing some old tune. - [117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/11/117/) — On they flew over woods and lakes, over seas, and many lands; and beneath them the chilling storm rushed fast, the wolves howled, the snow crackled; above them flew large screaming crows, but higher up appeared the moon, quite large and bright; and it was on it that Kay gazed during the long long winter's night; while by day he slept at the feet of the Snow Queen. [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/11/) **2** - ← previous: [The Fir Tree](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/10/) - next →: [The Snow Queen, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/12/) - ↑ back to [Andersen's Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/)