--- title: The Shoes of Fortune, part 4 — Andersen's Fairy Tales · full text with trees · page 2 description: The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: The next morning he had a sore chest and a bleeding back; and, excepting the fright, that was all that he had gained by the Shoes of Fortune --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/8/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 Shoes of Fortune, part 4 # The Shoes of Fortune, part 4 · page 2 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/8/) **2** - [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/8/101/) — He gave the noisy bird a knock on his beak, and walked on. - [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/8/102/) — He was soon met by two schoolboys of the upper class--that is to say as individuals, for with regard to learning they were in the lowest class in the school; and they bought the stupid bird. - [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/8/103/) — So the copying-clerk came to Copenhagen as guest, or rather as prisoner in a family living in Gother Street. - [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/8/104/) — “'Tis well that I'm dreaming,” said the clerk, “or I really should get angry. - [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/8/105/) — First I was a poet; now sold for a few pence as a lark; no doubt it was that accursed poetical nature which has metamorphosed me into such a poor harmless little creature. - [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/8/106/) — It is really pitiable, particularly when one gets into the hands of a little blackguard, perfect in all sorts of cruelty to animals: all I should like to know is, how the story will end.” - [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/8/107/) — The two schoolboys, the proprietors now of the transformed clerk, carried him into an elegant room. - [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/8/108/) — A stout stately dame received them with a smile; but she expressed much dissatisfaction that a common field-bird, as she called the lark, should appear in such high society. - [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/8/109/) — For to-day, however, she would allow it; and they must shut him in the empty cage that was standing in the window. - [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/8/110/) — “Perhaps he will amuse my good Polly,” added the lady, looking with a benignant smile at a large green parrot that swung himself backwards and forwards most comfortably in his ring, inside a magnificent brass-wired cage. - [111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/8/111/) — “To-day is Polly's birthday,” said she with stupid simplicity: “and the little brown field-bird must wish him joy.” - [112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/8/112/) — Mr. Polly uttered not a syllable in reply, but swung to and fro with dignified condescension; while a pretty canary, as yellow as gold, that had lately been brought from his sunny fragrant home, began to sing aloud. - [113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/8/113/) — “Noisy creature! - [114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/8/114/) — Will you be quiet!” screamed the lady of the house, covering the cage with an embroidered white pocket handkerchief. [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/8/) **2** - ← previous: [The Shoes of Fortune, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/7/) - next →: [The Shoes of Fortune, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/9/) - ↑ back to [Andersen's Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/)