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title: Twenty-second Evening — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · full text with trees
description: Twenty-second 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 looked down upon Tyrol," said the Moon, "and my beams caused the dark pines to throw long shadows upon the rocks.
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# Twenty-second Evening

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Twenty-second Evening of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen: the whole text, 8 sentences and 198 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/pg27200/113/1/) — "I looked down upon Tyrol," said the Moon, "and my beams caused the dark pines to throw long shadows upon the rocks.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/113/2/) — I looked at the pictures of St. Christopher carrying the Infant Jesus that are painted there upon the walls of the houses, colossal figures reaching from the ground to the roof.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/113/3/) — St. Florian was represented pouring water on the burning house, and the Lord hung bleeding on the great cross by the wayside.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/113/4/) — To the present generation these are old pictures, but I saw when they were put up, and marked how one followed the other.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/113/5/) — On the brow of the mountain yonder is perched, like a swallow's nest, a lonely convent of nuns.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/113/6/) — Two of the sisters stood up in the tower tolling the bell; they were both young, and therefore their glances flew over the mountain out into the world.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/113/7/) — A travelling coach passed by below, the postillion wound his horn, and the poor nuns looked after the carriage for a moment with a mournful glance, and a tear gleamed in the eyes of the younger one.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/113/8/) — And the horn sounded faint and more faintly, and the convent bell drowned its expiring echoes."

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