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title: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen — the whole book with trees and pragmatics
description: The whole of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, chapter by chapter: 17586 sentences, every one with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause, parsed by Mova.
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# «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen

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The whole of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA): 214 chapters, 17586 sentences. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics. Mova parsed them all itself; 213 are also in the tales treebank of release 0.3 and keep the tree a teacher model checked, the others say plainly that no teacher has checked them.

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- [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/101/) — Tenth Evening — 23 sentences · "I knew an old maid," said the Moon. "
- [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/102/) — Eleventh Evening — 20 sentences · "I will give you a picture of Pompeii," said the Moon. "
- [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/103/) — Twelfth Evening — 43 sentences · "I looked through the windows of an editor's house," said the Moon. "
- [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/104/) — Thirteenth Evening — 19 sentences · The Moon said, "Beside the woodland path there are two small farm-houses.
- [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/105/) — Fourteenth Evening — 20 sentences · "I was gliding over the Luneburg Heath," the Moon said. "
- [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/106/) — Fifteenth Evening — 32 sentences · "I know a Pulcinella," the Moon told me. "
- [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/107/) — Sixteenth Evening — 6 sentences · Hear what the Moon told me. "
- [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/108/) — Seventeenth Evening — 21 sentences · "I have spoken to you of Pompeii," said the Moon; "that corpse of a city, exposed in the view of living town…
- [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/109/) — Eighteenth Evening — 23 sentences · "I looked down upon a great theatre," said the Moon. "
- [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/110/) — Nineteenth Evening — 21 sentences · "I come from Rome," said the Moon. "
- [111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/111/) — Twentieth Evening — 23 sentences · It was more than a fortnight since the Moon had shone.
- [112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/112/) — Twenty-first Evening — 22 sentences · "I saw a little girl weeping," said the Moon; "she was weeping over the depravity of the world.
- [113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/113/) — Twenty-second Evening — 8 sentences · "I looked down upon Tyrol," said the Moon, "and my beams caused the dark pines to throw long shadows upon th…
- [114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/114/) — Twenty-third Evening — 39 sentences · Hear what the Moon told me. "
- [115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/115/) — Twenty-fourth Evening — 19 sentences · "I will now give you a picture from Frankfort," said the Moon. "
- [116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/116/) — Twenty-fifth Evening — 10 sentences · "It was yesterday, in the morning twilight"--these are the words the Moon told me--"in the great city no chi…
- [117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/117/) — Twenty-sixth Evening — 30 sentences · "Last night I looked down upon a town in China," said the Moon. "
- [118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/118/) — Twenty-seventh Evening — 8 sentences · "The air was calm," said the Moon; "the water was transparent as the purest ether through which I was glidin…
- [119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/119/) — Twenty-eighth Evening — 12 sentences · "I will give you another picture of Sweden," said the Moon. "
- [120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/120/) — Twenty-ninth Evening — 11 sentences · "Close by the high-road," said the Moon, "is an inn, and opposite to it is a great waggon-shed, whose straw…
- [121](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/121/) — Thirtieth Evening — 20 sentences · "It was in a little provincial town," the Moon said; "it certainly happened last year, but that has nothing…
- [122](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/122/) — Thirty-first Evening — 13 sentences · The wind blew stormy and cold, the clouds flew hurriedly past; only for a moment now and then did the Moon b…
- [123](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/123/) — Thirty-second Evening — 20 sentences · "I love the children," said the Moon, "especially the quite little ones--they are so droll.
- [124](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/124/) — The Neighbouring Families — 215 sentences · One would have thought that something important was going on in the duck-pond, but it was nothing after all.
- [125](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/125/) — The Nightingale — 167 sentences · In China, you know, the emperor is a Chinese, and all those about him are Chinamen also.
- [126](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/126/) — There Is No Doubt About It — 51 sentences · "That was a terrible affair!" said a hen, and in a quarter of the town, too, where it had not taken place. "
- [127](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/127/) — In the Nursery — 111 sentences · Father, and mother, and brothers, and sisters, were gone to the play; only little Anna and her grandpapa wer…
- [128](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/128/) — The Old Bachelor's Nightcap — 230 sentences · There is a street in Copenhagen with a very strange name.
- [129](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/129/) — (written For the Schiller Album) — 76 sentences · In the country of Wurtemburg, in Germany, where the acacias grow by the public road, where the apple-trees a…
- [130](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/130/) — The Old Grave-stone — 49 sentences · In a house, with a large courtyard, in a provincial town, at that time of the year in which people say the e…
- [131](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/131/) — The Old House — 141 sentences · A very old house stood once in a street with several that were quite new and clean.
- [132](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/132/) — What the Old Man Does Is Always Right — 130 sentences · I will tell you a story that was told me when I was a little boy.
- [133](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/133/) — The Old Street Lamp — 121 sentences · Did you ever hear the story of the old street lamp?
- [134](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/134/) — Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god — 207 sentences · There is nobody in the world who knows so many stories as Ole-Luk-Oie, or who can relate them so nicely.
- [135](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/135/) — Ole the Tower-keeper — 17 sentences · "In the world it's always going up and down; and now I can't go up any higher!"
- [136](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/136/) — First Visit — 53 sentences · Among the books which I had lately lent Ole, was one which had greatly rejoiced and occupied him.
- [137](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/137/) — Second Visit — 31 sentences · It was New Year's day, and I went up on the tower.
- [138](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/138/) — Third Visit — 61 sentences · On this occasion I chose the general "moving-day" for my visit to Ole, for on that day it is anything but ag…
- [139](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/139/) — Our Aunt — 104 sentences · You ought to have known our aunt; she was charming!
- [140](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/140/) — The Garden of Paradise — 263 sentences · There was once a king's son who had a larger and more beautiful collection of books than any one else in the…
- [141](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/141/) — The Pea Blossom — 53 sentences · There were once five peas in one shell, they were green, the shell was green, and so they believed that the…
- [142](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/142/) — The Pen and the Inkstand — 50 sentences · In a poet's room, where his inkstand stood on the table, the remark was once made, "It is wonderful what can…
- [143](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/143/) — The Philosopher's Stone — 247 sentences · Far away towards the east, in India, which seemed in those days the world's end, stood the Tree of the Sun;…
- [144](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/144/) — The Phoenix Bird — 21 sentences · In the Garden of Paradise, beneath the Tree of Knowledge, bloomed a rose bush.
- [145](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/145/) — The Portuguese Duck — 117 sentences · A duck once arrived from Portugal, but there were some who said she came from Spain, which is almost the sam…
- [146](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/146/) — The Porter's Son, part 1 — 118 sentences · The General lived in the grand first floor, and the porter lived in the cellar.
- [147](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/147/) — The Porter's Son, part 2 — 152 sentences · One day, when it was very gloomy, gray, wet weather, the brightest of days dawned for George; for the Profes…
- [148](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/148/) — The Porter's Son, part 3 — 126 sentences · "Yes, that I must," said Emily, "if you and my father do not say 'yes.'"
- [149](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/149/) — Poultry Meg's Family — 256 sentences · Poultry Meg was the only person who lived in the new stately dwelling that had been built for the fowls and…
- [150](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/150/) — The Princess and the Pea — 23 sentences · Once upon a time there was a prince who wanted to marry a princess; but she would have to be a real princess.
- [151](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/151/) — The Psyche — 258 sentences · In the fresh morning dawn, in the rosy air gleams a great Star, the brightest Star of the morning.
- [152](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/152/) — The Puppet-show Man — 71 sentences · On board a steamer I once met an elderly man, with such a merry face that, if it was really an index of his…
- [153](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/153/) — The Races — 60 sentences · A prize, or rather two prizes, a great one and a small one, had been awarded for the greatest swiftness in r…
- [154](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/154/) — The Red Shoes — 103 sentences · Once upon a time there was little girl, pretty and dainty.
- [155](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/155/) — Everything in the Right Place — 125 sentences · It is more than a hundred years ago!
- [156](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/156/) — A Rose From Homer's Grave — 21 sentences · Al the songs of the east speak of the love of the nightingale for the rose in the silent starlight night.
- [157](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/157/) — The Snail and the Rose-tree — 65 sentences · Round about the garden ran a hedge of hazel-bushes; beyond the hedge were fields and meadows with cows and s…
- [158](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/158/) — A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1 — 113 sentences · This story is from the sand-dunes or sand-hills of Jutland, but it does not begin there in the North, but fa…
- [159](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/159/) — A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2 — 104 sentences · The child that was to have been reared amid wealth and luxury was cast into the world, washed by the sea amo…
- [160](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/160/) — A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3 — 110 sentences · All this Jurgen listened to and treasured up in his memory of the happiest days of his childhood--the days o…
- [161](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/161/) — A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4 — 99 sentences · On the following morning, before the sun rose, he fastened his knapsack on his back, took his wooden provisi…
- [162](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/162/) — A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5 — 104 sentences · It was the largest church north of the Limfjorden.
- [163](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/163/) — A Story From the Sand-hills, part 6 — 31 sentences · The storm raged over the town of Skjagen; there had not been such a terrible tempest within the memory of th…
- [164](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/164/) — The Saucy Boy — 49 sentences · Once upon a time there was an old poet, one of those right good old poets.
- [165](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/165/) — The Shadow — 248 sentences · In very hot climates, where the heat of the sun has great power, people are usually as brown as mahogany; an…
- [166](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/166/) — The Shepherdess and the Sheep — 81 sentences · Have you ever seen an old wooden cupboard quite black with age, and ornamented with carved foliage and curio…
- [167](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/167/) — The Silver Shilling — 89 sentences · There was once a shilling, which came forth from the mint springing and shouting, "Hurrah! now I am going ou…
- [168](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/168/) — The Shirt-collar — 54 sentences · There was once a fine gentleman who possessed among other things a boot-jack and a hair-brush; but he had al…
- [169](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/169/) — The Snow Man — 118 sentences · "It is so delightfully cold," said the Snow Man, "that it makes my whole body crackle.
- [170](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/170/) — Story the First. Which describes a looking-glass and the broken fragments — 16 sentences · You must attend to the commencement of this story, for when we get to the end we shall know more than we do…
- [171](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/171/) — A Little Boy and a Little Girl — 86 sentences · In a large town, full of houses and people, there is not room for everybody to have even a little garden, th…
- [172](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/172/) — The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure — 147 sentences · But how fared little Gerda during Kay's absence?
- [173](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/173/) — The Prince and Princess — 118 sentences · Gerda was obliged to rest again, and just opposite the place where she sat, she saw a great crow come hoppin…
- [174](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/174/) — Little Robber-girl — 78 sentences · The coach drove on through a thick forest, where it lighted up the way like a torch, and dazzled the eyes of…
- [175](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/175/) — The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman — 45 sentences · They stopped at a little hut; it was very mean looking; the roof sloped nearly down to the ground, and the d…
- [176](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/176/) — Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last — 62 sentences · The walls of the palace were formed of drifted snow, and the windows and doors of the cutting winds.
- [177](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/177/) — The Snowdrop — 213 sentences · It was winter-time; the air was cold, the wind was sharp, but within the closed doors it was warm and comfor…
- [178](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/178/) — Soup From a Sausage Skewer — 29 sentences · "We had such an excellent dinner yesterday," said an old mouse of the female sex to another who had not been…
- [179](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/179/) — What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels — 68 sentences · "When I first went out into the world," said the little mouse, "I fancied, as so many of my age do, that I a…
- [180](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/180/) — What the Second Mouse Had to Tell — 77 sentences · "I was born in the library, at a castle," said the second mouse. "
- [181](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/181/) — What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, Had to Tell — 50 sentences · "I started off at once to the largest town," said she, "but the name of it has escaped me.
- [182](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/182/) — How It Was Prepared — 23 sentences · "I did not travel," said the third mouse; "I stayed in this country: that was the right way.
- [183](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/183/) — The Storks — 96 sentences · On the last house in a little village the storks had built a nest, and the mother stork sat in it with her f…
- [184](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/184/) — The Storm Shakes the Shield — 55 sentences · In the old days, when grandpapa was quite a little boy, and ran about in little red breeches and a red coat,…
- [185](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/185/) — The Story of a Mother — 108 sentences · A mother sat by her little child; she was very sad, for she feared it would die.
- [186](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/186/) — The Sunbeam and the Captive — 16 sentences · It is autumn.
- [187](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/187/) — The Swan's Nest — 21 sentences · Between the Baltic and the North Sea there lies an old swan's nest, wherein swans are born and have been bor…
- [188](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/188/) — The Swineherd — 94 sentences · Once upon a time lived a poor prince; his kingdom was very small, but it was large enough to enable him to m…
- [189](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/189/) — The Thistle's Experiences — 84 sentences · Belonging to the lordly manor-house was beautiful, well-kept garden, with rare trees and flowers; the guests…
- [190](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/190/) — The Thorny Road of Honor — 76 sentences · An old story yet lives of the "Thorny Road of Honor," of a marksman, who indeed attained to rank and office,…
- [191](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/191/) — In a Thousand Years — 31 sentences · Yes, in a thousand years people will fly on the wings of steam through the air, over the ocean!
- [192](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/192/) — The Brave Tin Soldier — 76 sentences · There were once five-and-twenty tin soldiers, who were all brothers, for they had been made out of the same…
- [193](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/193/) — The Tinder-box — 115 sentences · A soldier came marching along the high road: "Left, right--left, right."
- [194](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/194/) — The Toad — 181 sentences · The well was deep, and therefore the rope had to be a long one; it was heavy work turning the handle when an…
- [195](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/195/) — The Top and Ball — 49 sentences · A whipping top and a little ball lay together in a box, among other toys, and the top said to the ball, "Sha…
- [196](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/196/) — The Travelling Companion, part 1 — 117 sentences · Poor John was very sad; for his father was so ill, he had no hope of his recovery.
- [197](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/197/) — The Travelling Companion, part 2 — 115 sentences · During the night, when all the people at the inn were gone to bed, some one was heard to sigh so deeply and…
- [198](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/198/) — The Travelling Companion, part 3 — 94 sentences · "Listen to what I say," said the magician, "you must choose something very easy, he is less likely to guess…
- [199](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/199/) — Two Brothers — 32 sentences · On one of the Danish islands, where old Thingstones, the seats of justice of our forefathers, still stand in…
- [200](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/200/) — Two Maidens — 27 sentences · Have you ever seen a maiden?

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