Second Evening Second Evening of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen: the whole text, 13 sentences and 253 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself.
1 "Yesterday," said the Moon to me, "I looked down upon a small courtyard surrounded on all sides by houses. 2 In the courtyard sat a clucking hen with eleven chickens; and a pretty little girl was running and jumping around them. 3 The hen was frightened, and screamed, and spread out her wings over the little brood. 4 Then the girl's father came out and scolded her; and I glided away and thought no more of the matter. 5 "But this evening, only a few minutes ago, I looked down into the same courtyard. 6 Everything was quiet. 7 But presently the little girl came forth again, crept quietly to the hen-house, pushed back the bolt, and slipped into the apartment of the hen and chickens. 8 They cried out loudly, and came fluttering down from their perches, and ran about in dismay, and the little girl ran after them. 9 I saw it quite plainly, for I looked through a hole in the hen-house wall. 10 I was angry with the willful child, and felt glad when her father came out and scolded her more violently than yesterday, holding her roughly by the arm; she held down her head, and her blue eyes were full of large tears. ' 11 What are you about here?' he asked. 12 She wept and said, 'I wanted to kiss the hen and beg her pardon for frightening her yesterday; but I was afraid to tell you.' 13 "And the father kissed the innocent child's forehead, and I kissed her on the mouth and eyes." ← previous First Eveningnext → Third Evening↑ back to Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/93/