Sixteenth Evening Sixteenth Evening of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen: the whole text, 6 sentences and 206 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself.
1 Hear what the Moon told me. " 2 I have seen the cadet who had just been made an officer put on his handsome uniform for the first time; I have seen the young bride in her wedding dress, and the princess girl-wife happy in her gorgeous robes; but never have I seen a felicity equal to that of a little girl of four years old, whom I watched this evening. 3 She had received a new blue dress, and a new pink hat, the splendid attire had just been put on, and all were calling for a candle, for my rays, shining in through the windows of the room, were not bright enough for the occasion, and further illumination was required. 4 There stood the little maid, stiff and upright as a doll, her arms stretched painfully straight out away from the dress, and her fingers apart; and oh, what happiness beamed from her eyes, and from her whole countenance! ' 5 To-morrow you shall go out in your new clothes,' said her mother; and the little one looked up at her hat, and down at her frock, and smiled brightly. ' 6 Mother,' she cried, 'what will the little dogs think, when they see me in these splendid new things?'" ← previous Fifteenth Eveningnext → Seventeenth Evening↑ back to Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/107/