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title: Eighth Evening — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · full text with trees
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# Eighth Evening

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Eighth Evening of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen: the whole text, 15 sentences and 271 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/pg27200/99/1/) — Heavy clouds obscured the sky, and the Moon did not make his appearance at all.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/99/2/) — I stood in my little room, more lonely than ever, and looked up at the sky where he ought to have shown himself.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/99/3/) — My thoughts flew far away, up to my great friend, who every evening told me such pretty tales, and showed me pictures.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/99/4/) — Yes, he has had an experience indeed.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/99/5/) — He glided over the waters of the Deluge, and smiled on Noah's ark just as he lately glanced down upon me, and brought comfort and promise of a new world that was to spring forth from the old.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/99/6/) — When the Children of Israel sat weeping by the waters of Babylon, he glanced mournfully upon the willows where hung the silent harps.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/99/7/) — When Romeo climbed the balcony, and the promise of true love fluttered like a cherub toward heaven, the round Moon hung, half hidden among the dark cypresses, in the lucid air.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/99/8/) — He saw the captive giant at St. Helena, looking from the lonely rock across the wide ocean, while great thoughts swept through his soul.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/99/9/) — Ah! what tales the Moon can tell.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/99/10/) — Human life is like a story to him.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/99/11/) — To-night I shall not see thee again, old friend.
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/99/12/) — Tonight I can draw no picture of the memories of thy visit.
- [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/99/13/) — And, as I looked dreamily towards the clouds, the sky became bright.
- [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/99/14/) — There was a glancing light, and a beam from the Moon fell upon me.
- [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/99/15/) — It vanished again, and dark clouds flew past: but still it was a greeting, a friendly good-night offered to me by the Moon.

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