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title: The Last Dream of the Old Oak — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · full text with trees · page 2
description: The Last Dream of the Old Oak, «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, high up on the steep shore, and not far from the open seacoast, stood a very old oak-tree.
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# The Last Dream of the Old Oak · page 2

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- [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/69/101/) — Who can replace it?
- [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/69/102/) — Alas! no one."
- [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/69/103/) — This was a funeral oration over the old tree; short, but well-meant.
- [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/69/104/) — There it lay stretched on the snow-covered shore, and over it sounded the notes of a song from the ship--a song of Christmas joy, and of the redemption of the soul of man, and of eternal life through Christ's atoning blood.
- [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/69/105/) — "Sing aloud on the happy morn, All is fulfilled, for Christ is born; With songs of joy let us loudly sing, 'Hallelujahs to Christ our King.'"
- [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/69/106/) — Thus sounded the old Christmas carol, and every one on board the ship felt his thoughts elevated, through the song and the prayer, even as the old tree had felt lifted up in its last, its beautiful dream on that Christmas morn.

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