--- title: The Windmill — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · full text with trees description: The Windmill, «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: A windmill stood upon the hill, proud to look at, and it was proud too. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/213/) [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 Windmill # The Windmill The Windmill of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen: the whole text, 46 sentences and 936 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself; 1 of them are in the tales treebank and were checked by a teacher model. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/213/1/) — A windmill stood upon the hill, proud to look at, and it was proud too. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/213/2/) — "I am not proud at all," it said, "but I am very much enlightened without and within. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/213/3/) — I have sun and moon for my outward use, and for inward use too; and into the bargain I have stearine candles, train oil and lamps, and tallow candles. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/213/4/) — I may well say that I'm enlightened. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/213/5/) — I'm a thinking being, and so well constructed that it's quite delightful. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/213/6/) — I have a good windpipe in my chest, and I have four wings that are placed outside my head, just beneath my hat. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/213/7/) — The birds have only two wings, and are obliged to carry them on their backs. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/213/8/) — I am a Dutchman by birth, that may be seen by my figure--a flying Dutchman. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/213/9/) — They are considered supernatural beings, I know, and yet I am quite natural. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/213/10/) — I have a gallery round my chest, and house-room beneath it; that's where my thoughts dwell. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/213/11/) — My strongest thought, who rules and reigns, is called by others 'The Man in the Mill.' - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/213/12/) — He knows what he wants, and is lord over the meal and the bran; but he has his companion, too, and she calls herself 'Mother.' - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/213/13/) — She is the very heart of me. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/213/14/) — She does not run about stupidly and awkwardly, for she knows what she wants, she knows what she can do, she's as soft as a zephyr and as strong as a storm; she knows how to begin a thing carefully, and to have her own way. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/213/15/) — She is my soft temper, and the father is my hard one. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/213/16/) — They are two, and yet one; they each call the other 'My half.' - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/213/17/) — These two have some little boys, young thoughts, that can grow. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/213/18/) — The little ones keep everything in order. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/213/19/) — When, lately, in my wisdom, I let the father and the boys examine my throat and the hole in my chest, to see what was going on there,--for something in me was out of order, and it's well to examine one's self,--the little ones made a tremendous noise. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/213/20/) — The youngest jumped up into my hat, and shouted so there that it tickled me. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/213/21/) — The little thoughts may grow--I know that very well; and out in the world thoughts come too, and not only of my kind, for as far as I can see, I cannot discern anything like myself; but the wingless houses, whose throats make no noise, have thoughts too, and these come to my thoughts, and make love to them, as it is called. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/213/22/) — It's wonderful enough--yes, there are many wonderful things. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/213/23/) — Something has come over me, or into me,--something has changed in the mill-work. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/213/24/) — It seems as if the one half, the father, had altered, and had received a better temper and a more affectionate helpmate--so young and good, and yet the same, only more gentle and good through the course of time. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/213/25/) — What was bitter has passed away, and the whole is much more comfortable. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/213/26/) — "The days go on, and the days come nearer and nearer to clearness and to joy; and then a day will come when it will be over with me; but not over altogether. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/213/27/) — I must be pulled down that I may be built up again; I shall cease, but yet shall live on. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/213/28/) — To become quite a different being, and yet remain the same! - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/213/29/) — That's difficult for me to understand, however enlightened I may be with sun, moon, stearine, train oil, and tallow. - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/213/30/) — My old wood-work and my old brick-work will rise again from the dust! - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/213/31/) — "I will hope that I may keep my old thoughts, the father in the mill, and the mother, great ones and little ones--the family; for I call them all, great and little, the company of thoughts, because I must, and cannot refrain from it. - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/213/32/) — "And I must also remain 'myself,' with my throat in my chest, my wings on my head, the gallery round my body; else I should not know myself, nor could the others know me, and say, 'There's the mill on the hill, proud to look at, and yet not proud at all.'" - [33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/213/33/) — That is what the mill said. - [34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/213/34/) — Indeed, it said much more, but that is the most important part. - [35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/213/35/) — And the days came, and the days went, and yesterday was the last day. - [36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/213/36/) — Then the mill caught fire. - [37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/213/37/) — The flames rose up high, and beat out and in, and bit at the beams and planks, and ate them up. - [38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/213/38/) — The mill fell, and nothing remained of it but a heap of ashes. - [39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/213/39/) — The smoke drove across the scene of the conflagration, and the wind carried it away. - [40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/213/40/) — Whatever had been alive in the mill remained, and what had been gained by it has nothing to do with this story. - [41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/213/41/) — The miller's family--one soul, many thoughts, and yet only one--built a new, a splendid mill, which answered its purpose. — checked by a teacher - [42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/213/42/) — It was quite like the old one, and people said, "Why, yonder is the mill on the hill, proud to look at!" - [43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/213/43/) — But this mill was better arranged, more according to the time than the last, so that progress might be made. - [44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/213/44/) — The old beams had become worm-eaten and spongy--they lay in dust and ashes. - [45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/213/45/) — The body of the mill did not rise out of the dust as they had believed it would do. - [46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/213/46/) — They had taken it literally, and all things are not to be taken literally. - ← previous: [The Story of the Wind](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/212/) - next →: [The Story of the Year](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/214/) - ↑ back to [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/)