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title: Sixth Evening — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · full text with trees
description: Sixth Evening, «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: "I've been in Upsala," said the Moon: "I looked down upon the great plain covered with coarse grass, and upon the barren fields.
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# Sixth Evening

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Sixth Evening of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen: the whole text, 17 sentences and 250 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/pg27200/97/1/) — "I've been in Upsala," said the Moon: "I looked down upon the great plain covered with coarse grass, and upon the barren fields.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/97/2/) — I mirrored my face in the Tyris river, while the steamboat drove the fish into the rushes.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/97/3/) — Beneath me floated the waves, throwing long shadows on the so-called graves of Odin, Thor, and Friga.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/97/4/) — In the scanty turf that covers the hill-side names have been cut.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/97/5/) — There is no monument here, no memorial on which the traveller can have his name carved, no rocky wall on whose surface he can get it painted; so visitors have the turf cut away for that purpose.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/97/6/) — The naked earth peers through in the form of great letters and names; these form a network over the whole hill.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/97/7/) — Here is an immortality, which lasts till the fresh turf grows!
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/97/8/) — "Up on the hill stood a man, a poet.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/97/9/) — He emptied the mead horn with the broad silver rim, and murmured a name.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/97/10/) — He begged the winds not to betray him, but I heard the name.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/97/11/) — I knew it.
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/97/12/) — A count's coronet sparkles above it, and therefore he did not speak it out.
- [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/97/13/) — I smiled, for I knew that a poet's crown adorns his own name.
- [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/97/14/) — The nobility of Eleanora d'Este is attached to the name of Tasso.
- [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/97/15/) — And I also know where the Rose of Beauty blooms!"
- [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/97/16/) — Thus spake the Moon, and a cloud came between us.
- [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/97/17/) — May no cloud separate the poet from the rose!

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