--- title: Twenty-first Evening — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · full text with trees description: Twenty-first Evening, «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: "I saw a little girl weeping," said the Moon; "she was weeping over the depravity of the world. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/112/) [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/) / Twenty-first Evening # Twenty-first Evening Twenty-first Evening of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen: the whole text, 22 sentences and 346 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/pg27200/112/1/) — "I saw a little girl weeping," said the Moon; "she was weeping over the depravity of the world. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/112/2/) — She had received a most beautiful doll as a present. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/112/3/) — Oh, that was a glorious doll, so fair and delicate! - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/112/4/) — She did not seem created for the sorrows of this world. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/112/5/) — But the brothers of the little girl, those great naughty boys, had set the doll high up in the branches of a tree and had run away. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/112/6/) — "The little girl could not reach up to the doll, and could not help her down, and that is why she was crying. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/112/7/) — The doll must certainly have been crying too, for she stretched out her arms among the green branches, and looked quite mournful. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/112/8/) — Yes, these are the troubles of life of which the little girl had often heard tell. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/112/9/) — Alas, poor doll! it began to grow dark already; and suppose night were to come on completely! - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/112/10/) — Was she to be left sitting on the bough all night long? - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/112/11/) — No, the little maid could not make up her mind to that. ' - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/112/12/) — I'll stay with you,' she said, although she felt anything but happy in her mind. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/112/13/) — She could almost fancy she distinctly saw little gnomes, with their high-crowned hats, sitting in the bushes; and further back in the long walk, tall spectres appeared to be dancing. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/112/14/) — They came nearer and nearer, and stretched out their hands towards the tree on which the doll sat; they laughed scornfully, and pointed at her with their fingers. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/112/15/) — Oh, how frightened the little maid was! ' - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/112/16/) — But if one has not done anything wrong,' she thought, 'nothing evil can harm one. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/112/17/) — I wonder if I have done anything wrong?' - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/112/18/) — And she considered. ' - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/112/19/) — Oh, yes! - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/112/20/) — I laughed at the poor duck with the red rag on her leg; she limped along so funnily, I could not help laughing; but it's a sin to laugh at animals.' - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/112/21/) — And she looked up at the doll. ' - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/112/22/) — Did you laugh at the duck too?' she asked; and it seemed as if the doll shook her head." - ← previous: [Twentieth Evening](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/111/) - next →: [Twenty-second Evening](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/113/) - ↑ back to [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/)