--- title: The Porter's Son, part 1 — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · full text with trees · page 2 description: The Porter's Son, part 1, «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: The General lived in the grand first floor, and the porter lived in the cellar. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/146/page/2/) [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/) / The Porter's Son, part 1 # The Porter's Son, part 1 · page 2 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/146/) **2** - [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/146/101/) — The good God knows whom He will summon to Himself." - [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/146/102/) — But they kept her after all; and George drew pictures and sent them to her. - [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/146/103/) — He drew the Czar's palace; the old Kremlin at Moscow, just as it stood, with towers and cupolas; and these cupolas looked like gigantic green and gold cucumbers, at least in George's drawing. - [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/146/104/) — Little Emily was highly pleased, and consequently, when a week had elapsed, George sent her a few more pictures, all with buildings in them; for, you see, she could imagine all sorts of things inside the windows and doors. - [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/146/105/) — He drew a Chinese house, with bells hanging from every one of sixteen stories. - [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/146/106/) — He drew two Grecian temples with slender marble pillars, and with steps all round them. - [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/146/107/) — He drew a Norwegian church. - [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/146/108/) — It was easy to see that this church had been built entirely of wood, hewn out and wonderfully put together; every story looked as if it had rockers, like a cradle. - [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/146/109/) — But the most beautiful of all was the castle, drawn on one of the leaves, and which he called "Emily's Castle." - [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/146/110/) — This was the kind of place in which she must live. - [111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/146/111/) — That is what George had thought, and consequently he had put into this building whatever he thought most beautiful in all the others. - [112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/146/112/) — It had carved wood-work, like the Norwegian church; marble pillars, like the Grecian temple; bells in every story; and was crowned with cupolas, green and gilded, like those of the Kremlin of the Czar. - [113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/146/113/) — It was a real child's castle, and under every window was written what the hall or the room inside was intended to be; for instance: "Here Emily sleeps;" "Here Emily dances;" "Here Emily plays at receiving visitors." - [114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/146/114/) — It was a real pleasure to look at the castle, and right well was the castle looked at accordingly. - [115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/146/115/) — "Charming!" said the General. - [116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/146/116/) — But the old Count--for there was an old Count there, who was still grander than the General, and had a castle of his own--said nothing at all; he heard that it had been designed and drawn by the porter's little son. - [117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/146/117/) — Not that he was so very little, either, for he had already been confirmed. - [118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/146/118/) — The old Count looked at the pictures, and had his own thoughts as he did so. [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/146/) **2** - ← previous: [The Portuguese Duck](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/145/) - next →: [The Porter's Son, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/147/) - ↑ back to [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/)