--- title: The Travelling Companion, part 1 — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · full text with trees · page 2 description: The Travelling Companion, 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: Poor John was very sad; for his father was so ill, he had no hope of his recovery. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/196/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 Travelling Companion, part 1 # The Travelling Companion, part 1 · page 2 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/196/) **2** - [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/196/101/) — Believe me, it is delightful to ascend so high, tomorrow we shall be there." - [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/196/102/) — But the mountains were not so near as they appeared; they had to travel a whole day before they reached them, and pass through black forests and piles of rock as large as a town. - [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/196/103/) — The journey had been so fatiguing that John and his fellow-traveller stopped to rest at a roadside inn, so that they might gain strength for their journey on the morrow. - [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/196/104/) — In the large public room of the inn a great many persons were assembled to see a comedy performed by dolls. - [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/196/105/) — The showman had just erected his little theatre, and the people were sitting round the room to witness the performance. - [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/196/106/) — Right in front, in the very best place, sat a stout butcher, with a great bull-dog by his side who seemed very much inclined to bite. - [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/196/107/) — He sat staring with all his eyes, and so indeed did every one else in the room. - [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/196/108/) — And then the play began. - [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/196/109/) — It was a pretty piece, with a king and a queen in it, who sat on a beautiful throne, and had gold crowns on their heads. - [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/196/110/) — The trains to their dresses were very long, according to the fashion; while the prettiest of wooden dolls, with glass eyes and large mustaches, stood at the doors, and opened and shut them, that the fresh air might come into the room. - [111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/196/111/) — It was a very pleasant play, not at all mournful; but just as the queen stood up and walked across the stage, the great bull-dog, who should have been held back by his master, made a spring forward, and caught the queen in the teeth by the slender wrist, so that it snapped in two. - [112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/196/112/) — This was a very dreadful disaster. - [113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/196/113/) — The poor man, who was exhibiting the dolls, was much annoyed, and quite sad about his queen; she was the prettiest doll he had, and the bull-dog had broken her head and shoulders off. - [114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/196/114/) — But after all the people were gone away, the stranger, who came with John, said that he could soon set her to rights. - [115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/196/115/) — And then he brought out his box and rubbed the doll with some of the salve with which he had cured the old woman when she broke her leg. - [116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/196/116/) — As soon as this was done the doll's back became quite right again; her head and shoulders were fixed on, and she could even move her limbs herself: there was now no occasion to pull the wires, for the doll acted just like a living creature, excepting that she could not speak. - [117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/196/117/) — The man to whom the show belonged was quite delighted at having a doll who could dance of herself without being pulled by the wires; none of the other dolls could do this. 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