--- title: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen — the whole book with trees and pragmatics description: The whole of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, chapter by chapter: 17586 sentences, every one with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause, parsed by Mova. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) [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/) / Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen # «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen The whole of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA): 214 chapters, 17586 sentences. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics. Mova parsed them all itself; 213 are also in the tales treebank of release 0.3 and keep the tree a teacher model checked, the others say plainly that no teacher has checked them. **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/page/2/) [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/page/3/) - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/1/) — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen — 22 sentences · CONTENTS - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/2/) — A Story — 90 sentences · In the garden all the apple-trees were in blossom. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/3/) — By the Almshouse Window — 31 sentences · Near the grass-covered rampart which encircles Copenhagen lies a great red house. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/4/) — The Angel — 40 sentences · "Whenever a good child dies, an angel of God comes down from heaven, takes the dead child in his arms, sprea… - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/5/) — Anne Lisbeth — 180 sentences · Anne Lisbeth was a beautiful young woman, with a red and white complexion, glittering white teeth, and clear… - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/6/) — The Conceited Apple-branch — 56 sentences · It was the month of May. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/7/) — Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind — 131 sentences · There was once a sculptor, named Alfred, who having won the large gold medal and obtained a travelling schol… - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/8/) — The Beetle Who Went on His Travels — 159 sentences · There was once an Emperor who had a horse shod with gold. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/9/) — The Bell — 69 sentences · In the narrow streets of a large town people often heard in the evening, when the sun was setting, and his l… - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/10/) — The Bell-deep — 57 sentences · "Ding-dong! ding-dong!" - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/11/) — The Bird of Popular Song — 53 sentences · In is winter-time. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/12/) — The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors — 138 sentences · Our scene is laid in Northern Jutland, in the so-called "wild moor." - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/13/) — The Bottle Neck — 155 sentences · Close to the corner of a street, among other abodes of poverty, stood an exceedingly tall, narrow house, whi… - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/14/) — The Buckwheat — 35 sentences · Very often, after a violent thunder-storm, a field of buckwheat appears blackened and singed, as if a flame… - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/15/) — The Butterfly — 59 sentences · There was once a butterfly who wished for a bride, and, as may be supposed, he wanted to choose a very prett… - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/16/) — A Cheerful Temper — 64 sentences · From my father I received the best inheritance, namely a "good temper." " - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/17/) — The Child in the Grave — 89 sentences · It was a very sad day, and every heart in the house felt the deepest grief; for the youngest child, a boy of… - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/18/) — Children's Prattle — 34 sentences · At a rich merchant's house there was a children's party, and the children of rich and great people were there. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/19/) — The Farm-yard Cock and the Weather-cock — 47 sentences · There were two cocks--one on the dung-hill, the other on the roof. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/20/) — The Daisy — 68 sentences · Now listen! - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/21/) — The Darning-needle — 64 sentences · There was once a darning-needle who thought herself so fine that she fancied she must be fit for embroidery. " - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/22/) — Delaying Is Not Forgetting — 52 sentences · There was an old mansion surrounded by a marshy ditch with a drawbridge which was but seldom let down:--not… - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/23/) — The Drop of Water — 40 sentences · Of course you know what is meant by a magnifying glass--one of those round spectacle-glasses that make every… - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/24/) — The Dryad, part 1 — 139 sentences · We are travelling to Paris to the Exhibition. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/25/) — The Dryad, part 2 — 141 sentences · People appeared with spades and poles; they dug round the roots of the tree, deeper and deeper, and beneath… - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/26/) — The Dryad, part 3 — 153 sentences · A heavy stone slab was turned and then lifted. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/27/) — The Dryad, part 4 — 18 sentences · The Dryad felt a terror like a woman who has cut asunder her pulse-artery in the bath, but is filled again w… - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/28/) — An Old Story Told Anew — 100 sentences · Far in the interior of the country lay an old baronial hall, and in it lived an old proprietor, who had two… - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/29/) — The Dumb Book — 29 sentences · In the high-road which led through a wood stood a solitary farm-house; the road, in fact, ran right through… - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/30/) — The Elf of the Rose — 85 sentences · In the midst of a garden grew a rose-tree, in full blossom, and in the prettiest of all the roses lived an e… - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/31/) — The Elfin Hill — 114 sentences · A few large lizards were running nimbly about in the clefts of an old tree; they could understand one anothe… - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/32/) — The Emperor's New Suit — 85 sentences · Many, many years ago lived an emperor, who thought so much of new clothes that he spent all his money in ord… - [33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/33/) — The Fir Tree — 157 sentences · Far down in the forest, where the warm sun and the fresh air made a sweet resting-place, grew a pretty littl… - [34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/34/) — The Flax — 86 sentences · The flax was in full bloom; it had pretty little blue flowers as delicate as the wings of a moth, or even mo… - [35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/35/) — The Flying Trunk — 108 sentences · There was once a merchant who was so rich that he could have paved the whole street with gold, and would eve… - [36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/36/) — The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship — 163 sentences · The little dwelling in which we lived was of clay, but the door-posts were columns of fluted marble, found n… - [37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/37/) — The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf — 96 sentences · There was once a girl who trod on a loaf to avoid soiling her shoes, and the misfortunes that happened to he… - [38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/38/) — The Goblin and the Huckster — 55 sentences · There was once a regular student, who lived in a garret, and had no possessions. - [39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/39/) — The Golden Treasure — 188 sentences · The drummer's wife went into the church. - [40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/40/) — A Beginning — 21 sentences · In a house in Copenhagen, not far from the king's new market, a very large party had assembled, the host and… - [41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/41/) — What Happened to the Counsellor — 125 sentences · It was late when Counsellor Knapp, lost in thought about the times of King Hans, desired to return home; and… - [42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/42/) — The Watchman's Adventures — 93 sentences · "Well, I declare, there lies a pair of goloshes," said the watchman. " - [43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/43/) — The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey — 65 sentences · Every inhabitant of Copenhagen knows what the entrance to Frederick's Hospital is like; but as most probably… - [44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/44/) — The Clerk's Transformation — 151 sentences · The watchman, whom we of course have not forgotten, thought, after a while, of the goloshes which he had fou… - [45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/45/) — The Best Thing the Goloshes Did — 75 sentences · Early on the following morning, while the clerk was still in bed, his neighbor, a young divinity student, wh… - [46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/46/) — She Was Good For Nothing — 198 sentences · The mayor stood at the open window. - [47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/47/) — A Great Grief — 30 sentences · This story really consists of two parts. - [48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/48/) — The Happy Family — 56 sentences · The largest green leaf in this country is certainly the burdock-leaf. - [49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/49/) — A Leaf From Heaven — 52 sentences · High up in the clear, pure air flew an angel, with a flower plucked from the garden of heaven. - [50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/50/) — Holger Danske — 56 sentences · In Denmark there stands an old castle named Kronenburg, close by the Sound of Elsinore, where large ships, b… - [51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/51/) — Ib and Little Christina — 216 sentences · In the forest that extends from the banks of the Gudenau, in North Jutland, a long way into the country, and… - [52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/52/) — I. Little Rudy — 105 sentences · We will pay a visit to Switzerland, and wander through that country of mountains, whose steep and rocky side… - [53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/53/) — II. the Journey to the New Home — 70 sentences · Rudy was just eight years old, when his uncle, who lived on the other side of the mountain, wished to have t… - [54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/54/) — III. the Uncle — 61 sentences · Rudy arrived at last at his uncle's house, and was thankful to find the people like those he had been accust… - [55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/55/) — IV. Babette — 174 sentences · Who was the best marksman in the canton Valais? - [56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/56/) — V. on the Way Home — 31 sentences · Oh, what a number of things Rudy had to carry over the mountains, when he set out to return home! - [57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/57/) — VI. the Visit to the Mill — 73 sentences · "What beautiful things you have brought home!" said his old foster-mother; and her strange-looking eagle-eye… - [58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/58/) — VII. the Eagle's Nest — 48 sentences · From the mountain-path came a joyous sound of some person whistling, and it betokened good humor and undaunt… - [59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/59/) — VIII. What Fresh News the Parlor-cat Had to Tell — 31 sentences · "There is what you asked for," said Rudy, as he entered the miller's house at Bex, and placed on the floor a… - [60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/60/) — IX. the Ice Maiden — 36 sentences · The walnut and chestnut trees, which extend from the bridge of St. Maurice, by the river Rhone, to the shore… - [61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/61/) — X. the Godmother — 42 sentences · At Montreux, one of the towns which encircle the northeast part of the lake of Geneva, lived Babette's godmo… - [62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/62/) — XI. the Cousin — 40 sentences · When Rudy went a few days after to pay a visit to the mill, he found the young Englishman there. - [63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/) — XII. Evil Powers — 64 sentences · Rudy left Bex, and took his way home along the mountain path. - [64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/64/) — XIII. At the Mill — 44 sentences · "What strange creatures human beings are," said the parlor-cat to the kitchen-cat; "Babette and Rudy have fa… - [65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/65/) — XIV. Night Visions — 30 sentences · The sun had gone down, and the clouds lay low on the valley of the Rhone. - [66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/66/) — XV. the Conclusion — 91 sentences · It was early in the afternoon, and just at dinner-time, when the three joyous travellers reached Villeneuve. - [67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/67/) — The Jewish Maiden — 88 sentences · In a charity school, among the children, sat a little Jewish girl. - [68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/68/) — The Jumper — 32 sentences · The Flea, the Grasshopper, and the Skipjack once wanted to see which of them could jump highest; and they in… - [69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/69/) — The Last Dream of the Old Oak — 106 sentences · In the forest, high up on the steep shore, and not far from the open seacoast, stood a very old oak-tree. - [70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/70/) — The Last Pearl — 47 sentences · We are in a rich, happy house, where the master, the servants, the friends of the family are full of joy and… - [71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/71/) — Little Claus and Big Claus — 212 sentences · In a village there once lived two men who had the same name. - [72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/72/) — The Little Elder-tree Mother — 131 sentences · There was once a little boy who had caught cold; he had gone out and got wet feet. - [73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/73/) — Little Ida's Flowers — 146 sentences · "My poor flowers are quite dead," said little Ida, "they were so pretty yesterday evening, and now all the l… - [74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/74/) — The Little Match-seller — 42 sentences · It was terribly cold and nearly dark on the last evening of the old year, and the snow was falling fast. - [75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/75/) — The Little Mermaid, part 1 — 85 sentences · Far out in the ocean, where the water is as blue as the prettiest cornflower, and as clear as crystal, it is… - [76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/76/) — The Little Mermaid, part 2 — 89 sentences · It was very late; yet the little mermaid could not take her eyes from the ship, or from the beautiful prince. - [77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/77/) — The Little Mermaid, part 3 — 97 sentences · She now came to a space of marshy ground in the wood, where large, fat water-snakes were rolling in the mire… - [78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/78/) — The Little Mermaid, part 4 — 55 sentences · "It was you," said the prince, "who saved my life when I lay dead on the beach," and he folded his blushing… - [79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/79/) — Little Tiny or Thumbelina — 185 sentences · There was once a woman who wished very much to have a little child, but she could not obtain her wish. - [80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/80/) — Little Tuk — 75 sentences · Yes, they called him Little Tuk, but it was not his real name; he had called himself so before he could spea… - [81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/81/) — The Loveliest Rose in the World — 39 sentences · There lived once a great queen, in whose garden were found at all seasons the most splendid flowers, and fro… - [82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/82/) — The Mail-coach Passengers — 98 sentences · It was bitterly cold, the sky glittered with stars, and not a breeze stirred. " - [83](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/83/) — The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1 — 103 sentences · The storks relate to their little ones a great many stories, and they are all about moors and reed banks, an… - [84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/84/) — The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2 — 108 sentences · One morning there sounded a rushing of storks' wings over the roof. - [85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/85/) — The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3 — 103 sentences · The papa and mamma storks knew all this, and we also know it now. - [86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/86/) — The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4 — 94 sentences · And the horse galloped on more wildly than before. - [87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/87/) — The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5 — 124 sentences · Then he lifted her on the horse and gave her a golden censer, similar to those she had already seen at the V… - [88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/88/) — The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6 — 102 sentences · Joy reigned through the whole house, as well as in the stork's nest; although there the chief cause was real… - [89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/89/) — The Metal Pig — 195 sentences · In the city of Florence, not far from the Piazza del Granduca, runs a little street called Porta Rosa. - [90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/90/) — The Money-box — 37 sentences · In a nursery where a number of toys lay scattered about, a money-box stood on the top of a very high wardrobe. - [91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/91/) — What the Moon Saw — 20 sentences · INTRODUCTION - [92](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/92/) — First Evening — 13 sentences · "Last night"--I am quoting the Moon's own words--"last night I was gliding through the cloudless Indian sky. - [93](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/93/) — Second Evening — 13 sentences · "Yesterday," said the Moon to me, "I looked down upon a small courtyard surrounded on all sides by houses. - [94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/94/) — Third Evening — 21 sentences · "In the narrow street round the corner yonder--it is so narrow that my beams can only glide for a minute alo… - [95](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/95/) — Fourth Evening — 11 sentences · "This evening I saw a German play acted," said the Moon. " - [96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/96/) — Fifth Evening — 30 sentences · "Yesterday," began the Moon, "I looked down upon the turmoil of Paris. - [97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/97/) — Sixth Evening — 17 sentences · "I've been in Upsala," said the Moon: "I looked down upon the great plain covered with coarse grass, and upo… - [98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/98/) — Seventh Evening — 42 sentences · "Along the margin of the shore stretches a forest of firs and beeches, and fresh and fragrant is this wood;… - [99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/99/) — Eighth Evening — 15 sentences · Heavy clouds obscured the sky, and the Moon did not make his appearance at all. - [100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/100/) — Ninth Evening — 28 sentences · The air was clear again. **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/page/2/) [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/page/3/)