--- title: Under the Willow-tree, part 2 — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · full text with trees description: Under the Willow-tree, part 2, «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: But his master only smiled, and said, "He is a young man, my dear, you know." --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/) [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/) / Under the Willow-tree, part 2 # Under the Willow-tree, part 2 Under the Willow-tree, part 2 of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen: the whole text, 111 sentences and 2594 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/page/2/) - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/1/) — But his master only smiled, and said, "He is a young man, my dear, you know." - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/2/) — "On Sunday I shall see her," said Knud to himself, "and I will tell her that I love her with my whole heart and soul, and that she must be my little wife. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/3/) — I know I am now only a poor journeyman shoemaker, but I will work and strive, and become a master in time. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/4/) — Yes, I will speak to her; nothing comes from silent love. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/5/) — I learnt that from the gingerbread-cake story." - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/6/) — Sunday came, but when Knud arrived, they were all unfortunately invited out to spend the evening, and were obliged to tell him so. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/7/) — Joanna pressed his hand, and said, "Have you ever been to the theatre? you must go once; I sing there on Wednesday, and if you have time on that day, I will send you a ticket; my father knows where your master lives." - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/8/) — How kind this was of her! - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/9/) — And on Wednesday, about noon, Knud received a sealed packet with no address, but the ticket was inside; and in the evening Knud went, for the first time in his life, to a theatre. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/10/) — And what did he see? - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/11/) — He saw Joanna, and how beautiful and charming she looked! - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/12/) — He certainly saw her being married to a stranger, but that was all in the play, and only a pretence; Knud well knew that. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/13/) — She could never have the heart, he thought, to send him a ticket to go and see it, if it had been real. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/14/) — So he looked on, and when all the people applauded and clapped their hands, he shouted "hurrah." - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/15/) — He could see that even the king smiled at Joanna, and seemed delighted with her singing. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/16/) — How small Knud felt; but then he loved her so dearly, and thought she loved him, and the man must speak the first word, as the gingerbread maiden had thought. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/17/) — Ah, how much there was for him in that childish story. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/18/) — As soon as Sunday arrived, he went again, and felt as if he were about to enter on holy ground. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/19/) — Joanna was alone to welcome him, nothing could be more fortunate. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/20/) — "I am so glad you are come," she said. " - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/21/) — I was thinking of sending my father for you, but I had a presentiment that you would be here this evening. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/22/) — The fact is, I wanted to tell you that I am going to France. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/23/) — I shall start on Friday. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/24/) — It is necessary for me to go there, if I wish to become a first-rate performer." - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/25/) — Poor Knud! it seemed to him as if the whole room was whirling round with him. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/26/) — His courage failed, and he felt as if his heart would burst. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/27/) — He kept down the tears, but it was easy to see how sorrowful he was. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/28/) — "You honest, faithful soul," she exclaimed; and the words loosened Knud's tongue, and he told her how truly he had loved her, and that she must be his wife; and as he said this, he saw Joanna change color, and turn pale. - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/29/) — She let his hand fall, and said, earnestly and mournfully, "Knud, do not make yourself and me unhappy. - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/30/) — I will always be a good sister to you, one in whom you can trust; but I can never be anything more." - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/31/) — And she drew her white hand over his burning forehead, and said, "God gives strength to bear a great deal, if we only strive ourselves to endure." - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/32/) — At this moment her stepmother came into the room, and Joanna said quickly, "Knud is so unhappy, because I am going away;" and it appeared as if they had only been talking of her journey. " - [33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/33/) — Come, be a man," she added, placing her hand on his shoulder; "you are still a child, and you must be good and reasonable, as you were when we were both children, and played together under the willow-tree." - [34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/34/) — Knud listened, but he felt as if the world had slid out of its course. - [35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/35/) — His thoughts were like a loose thread fluttering to and fro in the wind. - [36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/36/) — He stayed, although he could not tell whether she had asked him to do so. - [37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/37/) — But she was kind and gentle to him; she poured out his tea, and sang to him; but the song had not the old tone in it, although it was wonderfully beautiful, and made his heart feel ready to burst. - [38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/38/) — And then he rose to go. - [39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/39/) — He did not offer his hand, but she seized it, and said-- - [40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/40/) — "Will you not shake hands with your sister at parting, my old playfellow?" and she smiled through the tears that were rolling down her cheeks. - [41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/41/) — Again she repeated the word "brother," which was a great consolation certainly; and thus they parted. - [42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/42/) — She sailed to France, and Knud wandered about the muddy streets of Copenhagen. - [43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/43/) — The other journeymen in the shop asked him why he looked so gloomy, and wanted him to go and amuse himself with them, as he was still a young man. - [44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/44/) — So he went with them to a dancing-room. - [45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/45/) — He saw many handsome girls there, but none like Joanna; and here, where he thought to forget her, she was more life-like before his mind than ever. " - [46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/46/) — God gives us strength to bear much, if we try to do our best," she had said; and as he thought of this, a devout feeling came into his mind, and he folded his hands. - [47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/47/) — Then, as the violins played and the girls danced round the room, he started; for it seemed to him as if he were in a place where he ought not to have brought Joanna, for she was here with him in his heart; and so he went out at once. - [48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/48/) — As he went through the streets at a quick pace, he passed the house where she used to live; it was all dark, empty, and lonely. - [49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/49/) — But the world went on its course, and Knud was obliged to go on too. - [50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/50/) — Winter came; the water was frozen, and everything seemed buried in a cold grave. - [51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/51/) — But when spring returned, and the first steamer prepared to sail, Knud was seized with a longing to wander forth into the world, but not to France. - [52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/52/) — So he packed his knapsack, and travelled through Germany, going from town to town, but finding neither rest or peace. - [53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/53/) — It was not till he arrived at the glorious old town of Nuremberg that he gained the mastery over himself, and rested his weary feet; and here he remained. - [54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/54/) — Nuremberg is a wonderful old city, and looks as if it had been cut out of an old picture-book. - [55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/55/) — The streets seem to have arranged themselves according to their own fancy, and as if the houses objected to stand in rows or rank and file. - [56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/56/) — Gables, with little towers, ornamented columns, and statues, can be seen even to the city gate; and from the singular-shaped roofs, waterspouts, formed like dragons, or long lean dogs, extend far across to the middle of the street. - [57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/57/) — Here, in the market-place, stood Knud, with his knapsack on his back, close to one of the old fountains which are so beautifully adorned with figures, scriptural and historical, and which spring up between the sparkling jets of water. - [58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/58/) — A pretty servant-maid was just filling her pails, and she gave Knud a refreshing draught; she had a handful of roses, and she gave him one, which appeared to him like a good omen for the future. - [59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/59/) — From a neighboring church came the sounds of music, and the familiar tones reminded him of the organ at home at Kjoge; so he passed into the great cathedral. - [60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/60/) — The sunshine streamed through the painted glass windows, and between two lofty slender pillars. - [61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/61/) — His thoughts became prayerful, and calm peace rested on his soul. - [62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/62/) — He next sought and found a good master in Nuremberg, with whom he stayed and learnt the German language. - [63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/63/) — The old moat round the town had been converted into a number of little kitchen gardens; but the high walls, with their heavy-looking towers, are still standing. - [64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/64/) — Inside these walls the ropemaker twisted his ropes along a walk built like a gallery, and in the cracks and crevices of the walls elderbushes grow and stretch their green boughs over the small houses which stand below. - [65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/65/) — In one of these houses lived the master for whom Knud worked; and over the little garret window where he sat, the elder-tree waved its branches. - [66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/66/) — Here he dwelt through one summer and winter, but when spring came again, he could endure it no longer. - [67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/67/) — The elder was in blossom, and its fragrance was so homelike, that he fancied himself back again in the gardens of Kjoge. - [68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/68/) — So Knud left his master, and went to work for another who lived farther in the town, where no elder grew. - [69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/69/) — His workshop was quite close to one of the old stone bridges, near to a water-mill, round which the roaring stream rushed and foamed always, yet restrained by the neighboring houses, whose old, decayed balconies hung over, and seemed ready to fall into the water. - [70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/70/) — Here grew no elder; here was not even a flower-pot, with its little green plant; but just opposite the workshop stood a great willow-tree, which seemed to hold fast to the house for fear of being carried away by the water. - [71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/71/) — It stretched its branches over the stream just as those of the willow-tree in the garden at Kjoge had spread over the river. - [72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/72/) — Yes, he had indeed gone from elder-mother to willow-father. - [73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/73/) — There was a something about the tree here, especially in the moonlight nights, that went direct to his heart; yet it was not in reality the moonlight, but the old tree itself. - [74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/74/) — However, he could not endure it: and why? - [75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/75/) — Ask the willow, ask the blossoming elder! - [76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/76/) — At all events, he bade farewell to Nuremberg and journeyed onwards. - [77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/77/) — He never spoke of Joanna to any one; his sorrow was hidden in his heart. - [78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/78/) — The old childish story of the two cakes had a deep meaning for him. - [79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/79/) — He understood now why the gingerbread man had a bitter almond in his left side; his was the feeling of bitterness, and Joanna, so mild and friendly, was represented by the honeycake maiden. - [80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/80/) — As he thought upon all this, the strap of his knapsack pressed across his chest so that he could hardly breathe; he loosened it, but gained no relief. - [81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/81/) — He saw but half the world around him; the other half he carried with him in his inward thoughts; and this is the condition in which he left Nuremberg. - [82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/82/) — Not till he caught sight of the lofty mountains did the world appear more free to him; his thoughts were attracted to outer objects, and tears came into his eyes. - [83](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/83/) — The Alps appeared to him like the wings of earth folded together; unfolded, they would display the variegated pictures of dark woods, foaming waters, spreading clouds, and masses of snow. " - [84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/84/) — At the last day," thought he, "the earth will unfold its great wings, and soar upwards to the skies, there to burst like a soap-bubble in the radiant glance of the Deity. - [85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/85/) — Oh," sighed he, "that the last day were come!" - [86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/86/) — Silently he wandered on through the country of the Alps, which seemed to him like a fruit garden, covered with soft turf. - [87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/87/) — From the wooden balconies of the houses the young lacemakers nodded as he passed. - [88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/88/) — The summits of the mountains glowed in the red evening sunset, and the green lakes beneath the dark trees reflected the glow. - [89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/89/) — Then he thought of the sea coast by the bay Kjoge, with a longing in his heart that was, however, without pain. - [90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/90/) — There, where the Rhine rolls onward like a great billow, and dissolves itself into snowflakes, where glistening clouds are ever changing as if here was the place of their creation, while the rainbow flutters about them like a many-colored ribbon, there did Knud think of the water-mill at Kjoge, with its rushing, foaming waters. - [91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/91/) — Gladly would he have remained in the quiet Rhenish town, but there were too many elders and willow-trees. - [92](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/92/) — So he travelled onwards, over a grand, lofty chain of mountains, over rugged,--rocky precipices, and along roads that hung on the mountain's side like a swallow's nest. - [93](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/93/) — The waters foamed in the depths below him. - [94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/94/) — The clouds lay beneath him. - [95](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/95/) — He wandered on, treading upon Alpine roses, thistles, and snow, with the summer sun shining upon him, till at length he bid farewell to the lands of the north. - [96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/96/) — Then he passed on under the shade of blooming chestnut-trees, through vineyards, and fields of Indian corn, till conscious that the mountains were as a wall between him and his early recollections; and he wished it to be so. - [97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/97/) — Before him lay a large and splendid city, called Milan, and here he found a German master who engaged him as a workman. - [98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/98/) — The master and his wife, in whose workshop he was employed, were an old, pious couple; and the two old people became quite fond of the quiet journeyman, who spoke but little, but worked more, and led a pious, Christian life; and even to himself it seemed as if God had removed the heavy burden from his heart. - [99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/99/) — His greatest pleasure was to climb, now and then, to the roof of the noble church, which was built of white marble. - [100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/100/) — The pointed towers, the decorated and open cloisters, the stately columns, the white statues which smiled upon him from every corner and porch and arch,--all, even the church itself, seemed to him to have been formed from the snow of his native land. **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/page/2/) - ← previous: [Under the Willow-tree, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/202/) - next →: [Under the Willow-tree, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/204/) - ↑ back to [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/)