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title: Thirty-first Evening — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · full text with trees
description: Thirty-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: The wind blew stormy and cold, the clouds flew hurriedly past; only for a moment now and then did the Moon become visible.
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# Thirty-first Evening

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Thirty-first Evening of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen: the whole text, 13 sentences and 261 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/pg27200/122/1/) — The wind blew stormy and cold, the clouds flew hurriedly past; only for a moment now and then did the Moon become visible.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/122/2/) — He said, "I looked down from the silent sky upon the driving clouds, and saw the great shadows chasing each other across the earth.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/122/3/) — I looked upon a prison.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/122/4/) — A closed carriage stood before it; a prisoner was to be carried away.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/122/5/) — My rays pierced through the grated window towards the wall; the prisoner was scratching a few lines upon it, as a parting token; but he did not write words, but a melody, the outpouring of his heart.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/122/6/) — The door was opened, and he was led forth, and fixed his eyes upon my round disc.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/122/7/) — Clouds passed between us, as if he were not to see his face, nor I his.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/122/8/) — He stepped into the carriage, the door was closed, the whip cracked, and the horses gallopped off into the thick forest, whither my rays were not able to follow him; but as I glanced through the grated window, my rays glided over the notes, his last farewell engraved on the prison wall--where words fail, sounds can often speak.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/122/9/) — My rays could only light up isolated notes, so the greater part of what was written there will ever remain dark to me.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/122/10/) — Was it the death-hymn he wrote there?
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/122/11/) — Were these the glad notes of joy?
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/122/12/) — Did he drive away to meet death, or hasten to the embraces of his beloved?
- [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/122/13/) — The rays of the Moon do not read all that is written by mortals."

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