--- title: Hansel and Gretel — Grimms' Fairy Tales · full text with trees · page 2 description: Hansel and Gretel, «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: Hard by a great forest dwelt a poor wood-cutter with his wife and his two children. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/20/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/) / [Grimms' Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/) / Hansel and Gretel # Hansel and Gretel · page 2 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/20/) **2** - [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/20/101/) — Let Hansel be fat or lean, tomorrow I will kill him, and cook him.’ - [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/20/102/) — Ah, how the poor little sister did lament when she had to fetch the water, and how her tears did flow down her cheeks! - [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/20/103/) — ‘Dear God, do help us,’ she cried. - [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/20/104/) — ‘If the wild beasts in the forest had but devoured us, we should at any rate have died together.’ - [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/20/105/) — ‘Just keep your noise to yourself,’ said the old woman, ‘it won’t help you at all.’ - [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/20/106/) — Early in the morning, Gretel had to go out and hang up the cauldron with the water, and light the fire. - [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/20/107/) — ‘We will bake first,’ said the old woman, ‘I have already heated the oven, and kneaded the dough.’ - [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/20/108/) — She pushed poor Gretel out to the oven, from which flames of fire were already darting. - [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/20/109/) — ‘Creep in,’ said the witch, ‘and see if it is properly heated, so that we can put the bread in.’ - [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/20/110/) — And once Gretel was inside, she intended to shut the oven and let her bake in it, and then she would eat her, too. - [111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/20/111/) — But Gretel saw what she had in mind, and said: ‘I do not know how I am to do it; how do I get in?’ - [112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/20/112/) — ‘Silly goose,’ said the old woman. - [113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/20/113/) — ‘The door is big enough; just look, I can get in myself!’ and she crept up and thrust her head into the oven. - [114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/20/114/) — Then Gretel gave her a push that drove her far into it, and shut the iron door, and fastened the bolt. - [115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/20/115/) — Oh! then she began to howl quite horribly, but Gretel ran away and the godless witch was miserably burnt to death. - [116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/20/116/) — Gretel, however, ran like lightning to Hansel, opened his little stable, and cried: ‘Hansel, we are saved! - [117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/20/117/) — The old witch is dead!’ - [118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/20/118/) — Then Hansel sprang like a bird from its cage when the door is opened. - [119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/20/119/) — How they did rejoice and embrace each other, and dance about and kiss each other! - [120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/20/120/) — And as they had no longer any need to fear her, they went into the witch’s house, and in every corner there stood chests full of pearls and jewels. - [121](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/20/121/) — ‘These are far better than pebbles!’ said Hansel, and thrust into his pockets whatever could be got in, and Gretel said: ‘I, too, will take something home with me,’ and filled her pinafore full. - [122](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/20/122/) — ‘But now we must be off,’ said Hansel, ‘that we may get out of the witch’s forest.’ - [123](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/20/123/) — When they had walked for two hours, they came to a great stretch of water. - [124](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/20/124/) — ‘We cannot cross,’ said Hansel, ‘I see no foot-plank, and no bridge.’ - [125](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/20/125/) — ‘And there is also no ferry,’ answered Gretel, ‘but a white duck is swimming there: if I ask her, she will help us over.’ - [126](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/20/126/) — Then she cried: - [127](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/20/127/) — ‘Little duck, little duck, dost thou see, Hansel and Gretel are waiting for thee? - [128](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/20/128/) — There’s never a plank, or bridge in sight, Take us across on thy back so white.’ - [129](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/20/129/) — The duck came to them, and Hansel seated himself on its back, and told his sister to sit by him. - [130](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/20/130/) — ‘No,’ replied Gretel, ‘that will be too heavy for the little duck; she shall take us across, one after the other.’ - [131](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/20/131/) — The good little duck did so, and when they were once safely across and had walked for a short time, the forest seemed to be more and more familiar to them, and at length they saw from afar their father’s house. - [132](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/20/132/) — Then they began to run, rushed into the parlour, and threw themselves round their father’s neck. - [133](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/20/133/) — The man had not known one happy hour since he had left the children in the forest; the woman, however, was dead. - [134](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/20/134/) — Gretel emptied her pinafore until pearls and precious stones ran about the room, and Hansel threw one handful after another out of his pocket to add to them. - [135](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/20/135/) — Then all anxiety was at an end, and they lived together in perfect happiness. - [136](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/20/136/) — My tale is done, there runs a mouse; whosoever catches it, may make himself a big fur cap out of it. 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