--- title: Fourth Evening — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · full text with trees description: Fourth Evening, «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: "This evening I saw a German play acted," said the Moon. " --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/95/) [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/) / Fourth Evening # Fourth Evening Fourth Evening of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen: the whole text, 11 sentences and 321 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/pg27200/95/1/) — "This evening I saw a German play acted," said the Moon. " - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/95/2/) — It was in a little town. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/95/3/) — A stable had been turned into a theatre; that is to say, the stable had been left standing, and had been turned into private boxes, and all the timber work had been covered with coloured paper. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/95/4/) — A little iron chandelier hung beneath the ceiling, and that it might be made to disappear into the ceiling, as it does in great theatres, when the ting-ting of the prompter's bell is heard, a great inverted tub has been placed just above it. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/95/5/) — "'Ting-ting!' and the little iron chandelier suddenly rose at least half a yard and disappeared in the tub; and that was the sign that the play was going to begin. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/95/6/) — A young nobleman and his lady, who happened to be passing through the little town, were present at the performance, and consequently the house was crowded. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/95/7/) — But under the chandelier was a vacant space like a little crater: not a single soul sat there, for the tallow was dropping, drip, drip! - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/95/8/) — I saw everything, for it was so warm in there that every loophole had been opened. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/95/9/) — The male and female servants stood outside, peeping through the chinks, although a real policeman was inside, threatening them with a stick. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/95/10/) — Close by the orchestra could be seen the noble young couple in two old arm-chairs, which were usually occupied by his worship the mayor and his lady; but these latter were to-day obliged to content themselves with wooden forms, just as if they had been ordinary citizens; and the lady observed quietly to herself, 'One sees, now, that there is rank above rank;' and this incident gave an air of extra festivity to the whole proceedings. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/95/11/) — The chandelier gave little leaps, the crowd got their knuckles rapped, and I, the Moon, was present at the performance from beginning to end." - ← previous: [Third Evening](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/94/) - next →: [Fifth Evening](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/96/) - ↑ back to [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/)