--- title: A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1 — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · full text with trees · page 2 description: A Story From the Sand-hills, 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: This story is from the sand-dunes or sand-hills of Jutland, but it does not begin there in the North, but far away in --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/158/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/) / A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1 # A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1 · page 2 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/158/) **2** - [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/158/101/) — Two people were seen to embrace and plunge together into the sea, and the next moment one of the largest waves that rolled towards the sand-hills threw a body on the beach. - [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/158/102/) — It was a woman; the sailors said that she was quite dead, but the women thought they saw signs of life in her, so the stranger was carried across the sand-hills to the fisherman's cottage. - [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/158/103/) — How beautiful and fair she was! - [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/158/104/) — She must be a great lady, they said. - [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/158/105/) — They laid her upon the humble bed; there was not a yard of linen on it, only a woollen coverlet to keep the occupant warm. - [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/158/106/) — Life returned to her, but she was delirious, and knew nothing of what had happened or where she was; and it was better so, for everything she loved and valued lay buried in the sea. - [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/158/107/) — The same thing happened to her ship as to the one spoken of in the song about "The King of England's Son." - [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/158/108/) — "Alas! how terrible to see The gallant bark sink rapidly." - [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/158/109/) — Fragments of the wreck and pieces of wood were washed ashore; they were all that remained of the vessel. - [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/158/110/) — The wind still blew violently on the coast. - [111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/158/111/) — For a few moments the strange lady seemed to rest; but she awoke in pain, and uttered cries of anguish and fear. — checked by a teacher - [112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/158/112/) — She opened her wonderfully beautiful eyes, and spoke a few words, but nobody understood her.--And lo! as a reward for the sorrow and suffering she had undergone, she held in her arms a new-born babe. - [113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/158/113/) — The child that was to have rested upon a magnificent couch, draped with silken curtains, in a luxurious home; it was to have been welcomed with joy to a life rich in all the good things of this world; and now Heaven had ordained that it should be born in this humble retreat, that it should not even receive a kiss from its mother, for when the fisherman's wife laid the child upon the mother's bosom, it rested on a heart that beat no more--she was dead. [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/158/) **2** - ← previous: [The Snail and the Rose-tree](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/157/) - next →: [A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/159/) - ↑ back to [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/)