Sixth Evening 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.
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 I mirrored my face in the Tyris river, while the steamboat drove the fish into the rushes. 3 Beneath me floated the waves, throwing long shadows on the so-called graves of Odin, Thor, and Friga. 4 In the scanty turf that covers the hill-side names have been cut. 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 The naked earth peers through in the form of great letters and names; these form a network over the whole hill. 7 Here is an immortality, which lasts till the fresh turf grows! 8 "Up on the hill stood a man, a poet. 9 He emptied the mead horn with the broad silver rim, and murmured a name. 10 He begged the winds not to betray him, but I heard the name. 11 I knew it. 12 A count's coronet sparkles above it, and therefore he did not speak it out. 13 I smiled, for I knew that a poet's crown adorns his own name. 14 The nobility of Eleanora d'Este is attached to the name of Tasso. 15 And I also know where the Rose of Beauty blooms!" 16 Thus spake the Moon, and a cloud came between us. 17 May no cloud separate the poet from the rose! ← previous Fifth Eveningnext → Seventh Evening↑ back to Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/97/