--- title: Thirteenth Evening — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · full text with trees description: Thirteenth Evening, «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: The Moon said, "Beside the woodland path there are two small farm-houses. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/104/) [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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / Thirteenth Evening # Thirteenth Evening Thirteenth Evening of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen: the whole text, 19 sentences and 386 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/104/1/) — The Moon said, "Beside the woodland path there are two small farm-houses. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/104/2/) — The doors are low, and some of the windows are placed quite high, and others close to the ground; and whitethorn and barberry bushes grow around them. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/104/3/) — The roof of each house is overgrown with moss and with yellow flowers and houseleek. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/104/4/) — Cabbage and potatoes are the only plants cultivated in the gardens, but out of the hedge there grows a willow tree, and under this willow tree sat a little girl, and she sat with her eyes fixed upon the old oak tree between the two huts. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/104/5/) — "It was an old withered stem. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/104/6/) — It had been sawn off at the top, and a stork had built his nest upon it; and he stood in this nest clapping with his beak. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/104/7/) — A little boy came and stood by the girl's side: they were brother and sister. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/104/8/) — "'What are you looking at?' he asked. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/104/9/) — "'I'm watching the stork,' she replied: 'our neighbors told me that he would bring us a little brother or sister to-day; let us watch to see it come!' - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/104/10/) — "'The stork brings no such things,' the boy declared, 'you may be sure of that. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/104/11/) — Our neighbor told me the same thing, but she laughed when she said it, and so I asked her if she could say 'On my honor,' and she could not; and I know by that the story about the storks is not true, and that they only tell it to us children for fun.' - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/104/12/) — "'But where do babies come from, then?' asked the girl. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/104/13/) — "'Why, an angel from heaven brings them under his cloak, but no man can see him; and that's why we never know when he brings them.' - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/104/14/) — "At that moment there was a rustling in the branches of the willow tree, and the children folded their hands and looked at one another: it was certainly the angel coming with the baby. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/104/15/) — They took each other's hand, and at that moment the door of one of the houses opened, and the neighbour appeared. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/104/16/) — "'Come in, you two,' she said. ' - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/104/17/) — See what the stork has brought. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/104/18/) — It is a little brother.' - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/104/19/) — "And the children nodded gravely at one another, for they had felt quite sure already that the baby was come." - ← previous: [Twelfth Evening](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/103/) - next →: [Fourteenth Evening](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/105/) - ↑ back to [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/)