--- title: XII. Evil Powers — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · full text with trees description: XII. Evil Powers, «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: Rudy left Bex, and took his way home along the mountain path. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/) [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/) / XII. Evil Powers # XII. Evil Powers XII. Evil Powers of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen: the whole text, 64 sentences and 1105 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/pg27200/63/1/) — Rudy left Bex, and took his way home along the mountain path. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/2/) — The air was fresh, but cold; for here amidst the deep snow, the Ice Maiden reigned. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/3/) — He was so high up that the large trees beneath him, with their thick foliage, appeared like garden plants, and the pines and bushes even less. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/4/) — The Alpine roses grew near the snow, which lay in detached stripes, and looked like linen laid out to bleach. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/5/) — A blue gentian grew in his path, and he crushed it with the butt end of his gun. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/6/) — A little higher up, he espied two chamois. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/7/) — Rudy's eyes glistened, and his thoughts flew at once in a different direction; but he was not near enough to take a sure aim. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/8/) — He ascended still higher, to a spot where a few rough blades of grass grew between the blocks of stone and the chamois passed quietly on over the snow-fields. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/9/) — Rudy walked hurriedly, while the clouds of mist gathered round him. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/10/) — Suddenly he found himself on the brink of a precipitous rock. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/11/) — The rain was falling in torrents. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/12/) — He felt a burning thirst, his head was hot, and his limbs trembled with cold. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/13/) — He seized his hunting-flask, but it was empty; he had not thought of filling it before ascending the mountain. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/14/) — He had never been ill in his life, nor ever experienced such sensations as those he now felt. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/15/) — He was so tired that he could scarcely resist lying down at his full length to sleep, although the ground was flooded with the rain. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/16/) — Yet when he tried to rouse himself a little, every object around him danced and trembled before his eyes. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/17/) — Suddenly he observed in the doorway of a hut newly built under the rock, a young maiden. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/18/) — He did not remember having seen this hut before, yet there it stood; and he thought, at first, that the young maiden was Annette, the schoolmaster's daughter, whom he had once kissed in the dance. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/19/) — The maiden was not Annette; yet it seemed as if he had seen her somewhere before, perhaps near Grindelwald, on the evening of his return home from Interlachen, after the shooting-match. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/20/) — "How did you come here?" he asked. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/21/) — "I am at home," she replied; "I am watching my flocks." - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/22/) — "Your flocks!" he exclaimed; "where do they find pasture? - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/23/) — There is nothing here but snow and rocks." - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/24/) — "Much you know of what grows here," she replied, laughing. " - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/25/) — Not far beneath us there is beautiful pasture-land. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/26/) — My goats go there. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/27/) — I tend them carefully; I never miss one. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/28/) — What is once mine remains mine." - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/29/) — "You are bold," said Rudy. - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/30/) — "And so are you," she answered. - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/31/) — "Have you any milk in the house?" he asked; "if so, give me some to drink; my thirst is intolerable." - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/32/) — "I have something better than milk," she replied, "which I will give you. - [33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/33/) — Some travellers who were here yesterday with their guide left behind them a half a flask of wine, such as you have never tasted. - [34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/34/) — They will not come back to fetch it, I know, and I shall not drink it; so you shall have it." - [35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/35/) — Then the maiden went to fetch the wine, poured some into a wooden cup, and offered it to Rudy. - [36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/36/) — "How good it is!" said he; "I have never before tasted such warm, invigorating wine." - [37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/37/) — And his eyes sparkled with new life; a glow diffused itself over his frame; it seemed as if every sorrow, every oppression were banished from his mind, and a fresh, free nature were stirring within him. " - [38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/38/) — You are surely Annette, the schoolmaster's daughter," cried he; "will you give me a kiss?" - [39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/39/) — "Yes, if you will give me that beautiful ring which you wear on your finger." - [40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/40/) — "My betrothal ring?" he replied. - [41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/41/) — "Yes, just so," said the maiden, as she poured out some more wine, and held it to his lips. - [42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/42/) — Again he drank, and a living joy streamed through every vein. - [43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/43/) — "The whole world is mine, why therefore should I grieve?" thought he. " - [44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/44/) — Everything is created for our enjoyment and happiness. - [45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/45/) — The stream of life is a stream of happiness; let us flow on with it to joy and felicity." - [46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/46/) — Rudy gazed on the young maiden; it was Annette, and yet it was not Annette; still less did he suppose it was the spectral phantom, whom he had met near Grindelwald. - [47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/47/) — The maiden up here on the mountain was fresh as the new fallen snow, blooming as an Alpine rose, and as nimble-footed as a young kid. - [48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/48/) — Still, she was one of Adam's race, like Rudy. - [49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/49/) — He flung his arms round the beautiful being, and gazed into her wonderfully clear eyes,--only for a moment; but in that moment words cannot express the effect of his gaze. - [50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/50/) — Was it the spirit of life or of death that overpowered him? - [51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/51/) — Was he rising higher, or sinking lower and lower into the deep, deadly abyss? - [52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/52/) — He knew not; but the walls of ice shone like blue-green glass; innumerable clefts yawned around him, and the water-drops tinkled like the chiming of church bells, and shone clearly as pearls in the light of a pale-blue flame. - [53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/53/) — The Ice Maiden, for she it was, kissed him, and her kiss sent a chill as of ice through his whole frame. - [54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/54/) — A cry of agony escaped from him; he struggled to get free, and tottered from her. - [55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/55/) — For a moment all was dark before his eyes, but when he opened them again it was light, and the Alpine maiden had vanished. - [56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/56/) — The powers of evil had played their game; the sheltering hut was no more to be seen. - [57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/57/) — The water trickled down the naked sides of the rocks, and snow lay thickly all around. - [58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/58/) — Rudy shivered with cold; he was wet through to the skin; and his ring was gone,--the betrothal ring that Babette had given him. - [59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/59/) — His gun lay near him in the snow; he took it up and tried to discharge it, but it missed fire. - [60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/60/) — Heavy clouds lay on the mountain clefts, like firm masses of snow. - [61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/61/) — Upon one of these Vertigo sat, lurking after his powerless prey, and from beneath came a sound as if a piece of rock had fallen from the cleft, and was crushing everything that stood in its way or opposed its course. - [62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/62/) — But, at the miller's, Babette sat alone and wept. - [63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/63/) — Rudy had not been to see her for six days. - [64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/64/) — He who was in the wrong, and who ought to ask her forgiveness; for did she not love him with her whole heart? - ← previous: [XI. the Cousin](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/62/) - next →: [XIII. 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