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title: Second Evening — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · full text with trees
description: Second Evening, «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: "Yesterday," said the Moon to me, "I looked down upon a small courtyard surrounded on all sides by houses.
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# Second Evening

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Second Evening of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen: the whole text, 13 sentences and 253 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself.

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- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/93/1/) — "Yesterday," said the Moon to me, "I looked down upon a small courtyard surrounded on all sides by houses.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/93/2/) — In the courtyard sat a clucking hen with eleven chickens; and a pretty little girl was running and jumping around them.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/93/3/) — The hen was frightened, and screamed, and spread out her wings over the little brood.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/93/4/) — Then the girl's father came out and scolded her; and I glided away and thought no more of the matter.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/93/5/) — "But this evening, only a few minutes ago, I looked down into the same courtyard.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/93/6/) — Everything was quiet.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/93/7/) — But presently the little girl came forth again, crept quietly to the hen-house, pushed back the bolt, and slipped into the apartment of the hen and chickens.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/93/8/) — They cried out loudly, and came fluttering down from their perches, and ran about in dismay, and the little girl ran after them.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/93/9/) — I saw it quite plainly, for I looked through a hole in the hen-house wall.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/93/10/) — I was angry with the willful child, and felt glad when her father came out and scolded her more violently than yesterday, holding her roughly by the arm; she held down her head, and her blue eyes were full of large tears. '
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/93/11/) — What are you about here?' he asked.
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/93/12/) — She wept and said, 'I wanted to kiss the hen and beg her pardon for frightening her yesterday; but I was afraid to tell you.'
- [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/93/13/) — "And the father kissed the innocent child's forehead, and I kissed her on the mouth and eyes."

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