--- title: The Snow Queen, part 2 — Andersen's Fairy Tales · full text with trees · page 2 description: The Snow Queen, part 2, «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: THIRD STORY. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/12/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 2 # The Snow Queen, part 2 · page 2 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/12/) **2** - [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/12/101/) — What do the Hyacinths say? - [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/12/102/) — “There were once upon a time three sisters, quite transparent, and very beautiful. - [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/12/103/) — The robe of the one was red, that of the second blue, and that of the third white. - [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/12/104/) — They danced hand in hand beside the calm lake in the clear moonshine. - [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/12/105/) — They were not elfin maidens, but mortal children. - [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/12/106/) — A sweet fragrance was smelt, and the maidens vanished in the wood; the fragrance grew stronger--three coffins, and in them three lovely maidens, glided out of the forest and across the lake: the shining glow-worms flew around like little floating lights. - [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/12/107/) — Do the dancing maidens sleep, or are they dead? - [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/12/108/) — The odour of the flowers says they are corpses; the evening bell tolls for the dead!” - [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/12/109/) — “You make me quite sad,” said little Gerda. - [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/12/110/) — “I cannot help thinking of the dead maidens. - [111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/12/111/) — Oh! is little Kay really dead? - [112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/12/112/) — The Roses have been in the earth, and they say no.” - [113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/12/113/) — “Ding, dong!” sounded the Hyacinth bells. - [114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/12/114/) — “We do not toll for little Kay; we do not know him. - [115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/12/115/) — That is our way of singing, the only one we have.” - [116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/12/116/) — And Gerda went to the Ranunculuses, that looked forth from among the shining green leaves. - [117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/12/117/) — “You are a little bright sun!” said Gerda. - [118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/12/118/) — “Tell me if you know where I can find my playfellow.” - [119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/12/119/) — And the Ranunculus shone brightly, and looked again at Gerda. - [120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/12/120/) — What song could the Ranunculus sing? - [121](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/12/121/) — It was one that said nothing about Kay either. - [122](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/12/122/) — “In a small court the bright sun was shining in the first days of spring. - [123](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/12/123/) — The beams glided down the white walls of a neighbor's house, and close by the fresh yellow flowers were growing, shining like gold in the warm sun-rays. - [124](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/12/124/) — An old grandmother was sitting in the air; her grand-daughter, the poor and lovely servant just come for a short visit. - [125](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/12/125/) — She knows her grandmother. - [126](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/12/126/) — There was gold, pure virgin gold in that blessed kiss. - [127](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/12/127/) — There, that is my little story,” said the Ranunculus. - [128](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/12/128/) — “My poor old grandmother!” sighed Gerda. - [129](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/12/129/) — “Yes, she is longing for me, no doubt: she is sorrowing for me, as she did for little Kay. - [130](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/12/130/) — But I will soon come home, and then I will bring Kay with me. — checked by a teacher - [131](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/12/131/) — It is of no use asking the flowers; they only know their own old rhymes, and can tell me nothing.” - [132](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/12/132/) — And she tucked up her frock, to enable her to run quicker; but the Narcissus gave her a knock on the leg, just as she was going to jump over it. - [133](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/12/133/) — So she stood still, looked at the long yellow flower, and asked, “You perhaps know something?” and she bent down to the Narcissus. - [134](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/12/134/) — And what did it say? - [135](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/12/135/) — “I can see myself--I can see myself! - [136](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/12/136/) — Oh, how odorous I am! - [137](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/12/137/) — Up in the little garret there stands, half-dressed, a little Dancer. - [138](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/12/138/) — She stands now on one leg, now on both; she despises the whole world; yet she lives only in imagination. - [139](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/12/139/) — She pours water out of the teapot over a piece of stuff which she holds in her hand; it is the bodice; cleanliness is a fine thing. - [140](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/12/140/) — The white dress is hanging on the hook; it was washed in the teapot, and dried on the roof. - [141](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/12/141/) — She puts it on, ties a saffron-colored kerchief round her neck, and then the gown looks whiter. - [142](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/12/142/) — I can see myself--I can see myself!” - [143](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/12/143/) — “That's nothing to me,” said little Gerda. - [144](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/12/144/) — “That does not concern me.” - [145](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/12/145/) — And then off she ran to the further end of the garden. - [146](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/12/146/) — The gate was locked, but she shook the rusted bolt till it was loosened, and the gate opened; and little Gerda ran off barefooted into the wide world. - [147](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/12/147/) — She looked round her thrice, but no one followed her. - [148](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/12/148/) — At last she could run no longer; she sat down on a large stone, and when she looked about her, she saw that the summer had passed; it was late in the autumn, but that one could not remark in the beautiful garden, where there was always sunshine, and where there were flowers the whole year round. 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