--- title: First Evening — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · full text with trees description: First Evening, «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: "Last night"--I am quoting the Moon's own words--"last night I was gliding through the cloudless Indian sky. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/92/) [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/) / First Evening # First Evening First Evening of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen: the whole text, 13 sentences and 311 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/pg27200/92/1/) — "Last night"--I am quoting the Moon's own words--"last night I was gliding through the cloudless Indian sky. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/92/2/) — My face was mirrored in the waters of the Ganges, and my beams strove to pierce through the thick intertwining boughs of the bananas, arching beneath me like the tortoise's shell. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/92/3/) — Forth from the thicket tripped a Hindoo maid, light as a gazelle, beautiful as Eve. Airy and etherial as a vision, and yet sharply defined amid the surrounding shadows, stood this daughter of Hindostan: I could read on her delicate brow the thought that had brought her hither. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/92/4/) — The thorny creeping plants tore her sandals, but for all that she came rapidly forward. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/92/5/) — The deer that had come down to the river to quench her thirst, sprang by with a startled bound, for in her hand the maiden bore a lighted lamp. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/92/6/) — I could see the blood in her delicate finger tips, as she spread them for a screen before the dancing flame. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/92/7/) — She came down to the stream, and set the lamp upon the water, and let it float away. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/92/8/) — The flame flickered to and fro, and seemed ready to expire; but still the lamp burned on, and the girl's black sparkling eyes, half veiled behind their long silken lashes, followed it with a gaze of earnest intensity. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/92/9/) — She knew that if the lamp continued to burn so long as she could keep it in sight, her betrothed was still alive; but if the lamp was suddenly extinguished, he was dead. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/92/10/) — And the lamp burned bravely on, and she fell on her knees, and prayed. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/92/11/) — Near her in the grass lay a speckled snake, but she heeded it not--she thought only of Bramah and of her betrothed. ' - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/92/12/) — He lives!' she shouted joyfully, 'he lives!' - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/92/13/) — And from the mountains the echo came back upon her, 'he lives!" - ← previous: [What the Moon Saw](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/91/) - next →: [Second Evening](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/93/) - ↑ back to [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/)