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title: Sixteenth Evening — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · full text with trees
description: Sixteenth Evening, «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: Hear what the Moon told me. "
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# Sixteenth Evening

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Sixteenth Evening of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen: the whole text, 6 sentences and 206 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself.

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- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/107/1/) — Hear what the Moon told me. "
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/107/2/) — I have seen the cadet who had just been made an officer put on his handsome uniform for the first time; I have seen the young bride in her wedding dress, and the princess girl-wife happy in her gorgeous robes; but never have I seen a felicity equal to that of a little girl of four years old, whom I watched this evening.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/107/3/) — She had received a new blue dress, and a new pink hat, the splendid attire had just been put on, and all were calling for a candle, for my rays, shining in through the windows of the room, were not bright enough for the occasion, and further illumination was required.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/107/4/) — There stood the little maid, stiff and upright as a doll, her arms stretched painfully straight out away from the dress, and her fingers apart; and oh, what happiness beamed from her eyes, and from her whole countenance! '
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/107/5/) — To-morrow you shall go out in your new clothes,' said her mother; and the little one looked up at her hat, and down at her frock, and smiled brightly. '
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/107/6/) — Mother,' she cried, 'what will the little dogs think, when they see me in these splendid new things?'"

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