--- title: Ib and Little Christina — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · full text with trees · page 3 description: Ib and Little Christina, «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: In the forest that extends from the banks of the Gudenau, in North Jutland, a long way into the country, and not far from the cle --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/51/page/3/) [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/) / Ib and Little Christina # Ib and Little Christina · page 3 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/51/) [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/51/page/2/) **3** - [201](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/51/201/) — She could say no more. - [202](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/51/202/) — Then Ib brought out another match, and lighted a piece of candle which he found in the room, and it threw a glimmering light over the wretched dwelling. - [203](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/51/203/) — Ib looked at the little girl, and thought of Christina in her young days. - [204](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/51/204/) — For her sake, could he not love this child, who was a stranger to him? - [205](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/51/205/) — As he thus reflected, the dying woman opened her eyes, and gazed at him. - [206](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/51/206/) — Did she recognize him? - [207](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/51/207/) — He never knew; for not another word escaped her lips. - [208](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/51/208/) — \* \* \* \* \* - [209](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/51/209/) — In the forest by the river Gudenau, not far from the heath, and beneath the ridge of land, stood the little farm, newly painted and whitewashed. - [210](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/51/210/) — The air was heavy and dark; there were no blossoms on the heath; the autumn winds whirled the yellow leaves towards the boatman's hut, in which strangers dwelt; but the little farm stood safely sheltered beneath the tall trees and the high ridge. - [211](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/51/211/) — The turf blazed brightly on the hearth, and within was sunlight, the sparkling light from the sunny eyes of a child; the birdlike tones from the rosy lips ringing like the song of a lark in spring. - [212](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/51/212/) — All was life and joy. - [213](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/51/213/) — Little Christina sat on Ib's knee. - [214](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/51/214/) — Ib was to her both father and mother; her own parents had vanished from her memory, as a dream-picture vanishes alike from childhood and age. - [215](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/51/215/) — Ib's house was well and prettily furnished; for he was a prosperous man now, while the mother of the little girl rested in the churchyard at Copenhagen, where she had died in poverty. - [216](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/51/216/) — Ib had money now--money which had come to him out of the black earth; and he had Christina for his own, after all. [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/51/) [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/51/page/2/) **3** - ← previous: [Holger Danske](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/50/) - next →: [I. Little Rudy](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/52/) - ↑ back to [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/)