--- title: A Great Grief — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · full text with trees description: A Great Grief, «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 really consists of two parts. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/47/) [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 Great Grief # A Great Grief A Great Grief of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen: the whole text, 30 sentences and 769 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/47/1/) — This story really consists of two parts. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/47/2/) — The first part might be left out, but it gives us a few particulars, and these are useful. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/47/3/) — We were staying in the country at a gentleman's seat, where it happened that the master was absent for a few days. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/47/4/) — In the meantime, there arrived from the next town a lady; she had a pug dog with her, and came, she said, to dispose of shares in her tan-yard. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/47/5/) — She had her papers with her, and we advised her to put them in an envelope, and to write thereon the address of the proprietor of the estate, "General War-Commissary Knight," &c. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/47/6/) — She listened to us attentively, seized the pen, paused, and begged us to repeat the direction slowly. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/47/7/) — We complied, and she wrote; but in the midst of the "General War-" she struck fast, sighed deeply, and said, "I am only a woman!" - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/47/8/) — Her Puggie had seated itself on the ground while she wrote, and growled; for the dog had come with her for amusement and for the sake of its health; and then the bare floor ought not to be offered to a visitor. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/47/9/) — His outward appearance was characterized by a snub nose and a very fat back. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/47/10/) — "He doesn't bite," said the lady; "he has no teeth. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/47/11/) — He is like one of the family, faithful and grumpy; but the latter is my grandchildren's fault, for they have teased him; they play at wedding, and want to give him the part of the bridesmaid, and that's too much for him, poor old fellow." - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/47/12/) — And she delivered her papers, and took Puggie upon her arm. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/47/13/) — And this is the first part of the story which might have been left out. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/47/14/) — PUGGIE DIED!! - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/47/15/) — That's the second part. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/47/16/) — It was about a week afterwards we arrived in the town, and put up at the inn. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/47/17/) — Our windows looked into the tan-yard, which was divided into two parts by a partition of planks; in one half were many skins and hides, raw and tanned. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/47/18/) — Here was all the apparatus necessary to carry on a tannery, and it belonged to the widow. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/47/19/) — Puggie had died in the morning, and was to be buried in this part of the yard; the grandchildren of the widow (that is, of the tanner's widow, for Puggie had never been married) filled up the grave, and it was a beautiful grave--it must have been quite pleasant to lie there. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/47/20/) — The grave was bordered with pieces of flower-pots and strewn over with sand; quite at the top they had stuck up half a beer bottle, with the neck upwards, and that was not at all allegorical. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/47/21/) — The children danced round the grave, and the eldest of the boys among them, a practical youngster of seven years, made the proposition that there should be an exhibition of Puggie's burial-place for all who lived in the lane; the price of admission was to be a trouser button, for every boy would be sure to have one, and each might also give one for a little girl. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/47/22/) — This proposal was adopted by acclamation. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/47/23/) — And all the children out of the lane--yes, even out of the little lane at the back--flocked to the place, and each gave a button. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/47/24/) — Many were noticed to go about on that afternoon with only one suspender; but then they had seen Puggie's grave, and the sight was worth much more. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/47/25/) — But in front of the tan-yard, close to the entrance, stood a little girl clothed in rags, very pretty to look at, with curly hair, and eyes so blue and clear that it was a pleasure to look into them. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/47/26/) — The child said not a word, nor did she cry; but each time the little door was opened she gave a long, long look into the yard. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/47/27/) — She had not a button--that she knew right well, and therefore she remained standing sorrowfully outside, till all the others had seen the grave and had gone away; then she sat down, held her little brown hands before her eyes, and burst into tears; this girl alone had not seen Puggie's grave. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/47/28/) — It was a grief as great to her as any grown person can experience. - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/47/29/) — We saw this from above; and looked at from above, how many a grief of our own and of others can make us smile! - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/47/30/) — That is the story, and whoever does not understand it may go and purchase a share in the tan-yard from the window. - ← previous: [She Was Good For Nothing](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/46/) - next →: [The Happy Family](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/48/) - ↑ back to [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/)