--- title: Antonio Canova. — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · full text with trees · page 3 description: Antonio Canova., «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: A good many years ago there lived in Italy a little boy whose name was An-to'ni-o Ca-no'va. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/54/page/3/) [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/) / [Fifty Famous Stories Retold](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/) / Antonio Canova. # Antonio Canova. · page 3 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/54/) [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/54/page/2/) **3** - [201](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/54/201/) — At each corner she placed a candle, and on the carpet she put a number of eggs. - [202](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/54/202/) — She arranged the eggs in the form of certain figures. - [203](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/54/203/) — When this was done, she called to a man who was waiting with a violin. - [204](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/54/204/) — She tied a band about her eyes, and then the dancing began. - [205](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/54/205/) — How lightly, quickly, nimbly, wonderfully, she moved! - [206](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/54/206/) — She skipped so fast among the eggs, she trod so closely beside them, that you would have thought she must crush them all. - [207](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/54/207/) — But not one of them did she touch. - [208](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/54/208/) — With all kinds of steps she passed among them. - [209](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/54/209/) — Not one of them was moved from its place. - [210](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/54/210/) — Wilhelm forgot all his cares. — checked by a teacher - [211](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/54/211/) — He watched every motion of the child. - [212](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/54/212/) — He almost forgot who and where he was. - [213](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/54/213/) — When the dance was ended, Mignon rolled the eggs together with her foot into a little heap. - [214](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/54/214/) — Not one was left behind, not one was harmed. - [215](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/54/215/) — Then she took the band from her eyes, and made a little bow. - [216](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/54/216/) — Wilhelm thanked her for showing him a dance that was so wonderful and pretty. - [217](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/54/217/) — He praised her, petted her, and hoped that she had not tired herself too much. - [218](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/54/218/) — When she had gone from the room, the man with the violin told Wilhelm of the care she had taken to teach him the music of the dance. - [219](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/54/219/) — He told how she had sung it to him over and over again. - [220](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/54/220/) — He told how she had even wished to pay him with her own money for learning to play it for her. - [221](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/54/221/) — There was yet another way in which Mignon tried to please Wilhelm, and make him forget his cares. - [222](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/54/222/) — She sang to him. - [223](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/54/223/) — The song which he liked best was one whose words he had never heard before. - [224](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/54/224/) — Its music, too, was strange to him, and yet it pleased him very much. - [225](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/54/225/) — He asked her to speak the words over and over again. — checked by a teacher - [226](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/54/226/) — He wrote them down; but the sweetness of the tune was more delightful than the words. - [227](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/54/227/) — The song began in this way:-- - [228](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/54/228/) — "Do you know the land where citrons, lemons, grow, And oranges under the green leaves glow?" - [229](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/54/229/) — Once, when she had ended the song, she said again, "Do you know the land?" - [230](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/54/230/) — "It must be Italy," said Wilhelm. " - [231](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/54/231/) — Have you ever been there?" - [232](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/54/232/) — The child did not answer. - [233](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/54/233/) — \* \* \* \* \* - [234](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/54/234/) — End of Project Gutenberg's Fifty Famous Stories Retold, by James Baldwin [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/54/) [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/54/page/2/) **3** - ← previous: [V. the Fortune.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/53/) - ↑ back to [Fifty Famous Stories Retold](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/)