--- title: The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12 — The Crimson Fairy Book · full text with trees description: The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: When he awoke he got up to explore the island, and see if there were any men upon it; but though he found streams and fruit trees in abundan --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Crimson Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/) / The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12 # The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12 The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12 of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang: the whole text, 93 sentences and 2571 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself; 3 of them are in the tales treebank and were checked by a teacher model. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/1/) — When he awoke he got up to explore the island, and see if there were any men upon it; but though he found streams and fruit trees in abundance, there was no trace either of man or beast. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/2/) — Then, tired with his wanderings he sat down and began to think. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/3/) — For perhaps the first time in his life his thoughts did not instantly turn to money. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/4/) — It was not on his lost treasures that his mind dwelt, but on his conduct to his parents: his laziness and disobedience as a boy; his forgetfulness of them as a man. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/5/) — “If wild animals were to come and tear me to pieces,” he said to himself bitterly, “it would be only what I deserve! - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/6/) — My gains are all at the bottom of the sea—well! lightly won, lightly lost—but it is odd that I feel I should not care for that if only my pipes were left me.” - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/7/) — Then he rose and walked a little further, till he saw a tree with great red apples shining amidst the leaves, and he pulled some down, and ate them greedily. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/8/) — After that he stretched himself out on the soft moss and went to sleep. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/9/) — In the morning he ran to the nearest stream to wash himself, but to his horror, when he caught sight of his face, he saw his nose had grown the colour of an apple, and reached nearly to his waist. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/10/) — He started back thinking he was dreaming, and put up his hand; but, alas! the dreadful thing was true. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/11/) — “Oh, why does not some wild beast devour me?” he cried to himself; “never, never, can I go again amongst my fellow-men! - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/12/) — If only the sea had swallowed me up, how much happier it had been for me!” - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/13/) — And he hid his head in his hands and wept. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/14/) — His grief was so violent, that it exhausted him, and growing hungry he looked about for something to eat. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/15/) — Just above him was a bough of ripe, brown nuts, end he picked them and ate a handful. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/16/) — To his surprise, as he was eating them, he felt his nose grow shorter and shorter, and after a while he ventured to feel it with his hand, and even to look in the stream again! - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/17/) — Yes, there was no mistake, it was as short as before, or perhaps a little shorter. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/18/) — In his joy at this discovery Tiidu did a very bold thing. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/19/) — He took one of the apples out of his pocket, and cautiously bit a piece out of it. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/20/) — In an instant his nose was as long as his chin, and in a deadly fear lest it should stretch further, he hastily swallowed a nut, and awaited the result with terror. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/21/) — Supposing that the shrinking of his nose had only been an accident before! - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/22/) — Supposing that that nut and no other was able to cause its shrinking! - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/23/) — In that case he had, by his own folly, in not letting well alone, ruined his life completely. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/24/) — But, no! he had guessed rightly, for in no more time than his nose had taken to grow long did it take to return to its proper size. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/25/) — “This may make my fortune,” he said joyfully to himself; and he gathered some of the apples, which he put into one pocket, and a good supply of nuts which he put into the other. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/26/) — Next day he wove a basket out of some rushes, so that if he ever left the island he might be able to carry his treasures about. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/27/) — That night he dreamed that his friend the old man appeared to him and said: “Because you did not mourn for your lost treasure, but only for your pipes, I will give you a new set to replace them.” - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/28/) — And, behold! in the morning when he got up a set of pipes was lying in the basket. - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/29/) — With what joy did he seize them and begin one of his favourite tunes; and as he played hope sprang up in his heart, and he looked out to sea, to try to detect the sign of a sail. - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/30/) — Yes! there it was, making straight for the island; and Tiidu, holding his pipes in his hand, dashed down to the shore. - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/31/) — The sailors knew the island to be uninhabited, and were much surprised to see a man standing on the beach, waving his arms in welcome to them. - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/32/) — A boat was put off, and two sailors rowed to the shore to discover how he came there, and if he wished to be taken away. - [33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/33/) — Tiidu told them the story of his shipwreck, and the captain promised that he should come on board, and sail with them back to Kungla; and thankful indeed was Tiidu to accept the offer, and to show his gratitude by playing on his pipes whenever he was asked to do so. - [34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/34/) — They had a quick voyage, and it was not long before Tiidu found himself again in the streets of the capital of Kungla, playing as he went along. - [35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/35/) — The people had heard no music like his since he went away, and they crowded round him, and in their joy gave him whatever money they had in their pockets. - [36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/36/) — His first care was to buy himself some new clothes, which he sadly needed, taking care, however, that they should be made after a foreign fashion. — checked by a teacher - [37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/37/) — When they were ready, he set out one day with a small basket of his famous apples, and went up to the palace. - [38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/38/) — He did not have to wait long before one of the royal servants passed by and bought all the apples, begging as he did so that the merchant should return and bring some more. - [39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/39/) — This Tiidu promised, and hastened away as if he had a mad bull behind him, so afraid was he that the man should begin to eat an apple at once. - [40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/40/) — It is needless to say that for some days he took no more apples back to the palace, but kept well away on the other side of the town, wearing other clothes, and disguised by a long black beard, so that even his own mother would not have known him. - [41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/41/) — The morning after his visit to the castle the whole city was in an uproar about the dreadful misfortune that had happened to the Royal Family, for not only the king but his wife and children, had eaten of the stranger’s apples, and all, so said the rumour, were very ill. - [42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/42/) — The most famous doctors and the greatest magicians were hastily summoned to the palace, but they shook their heads and came away again; never had they met with such a disease in all the course of their experience. - [43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/43/) — By-and-bye a story went round the town, started no one knew how, that the malady was in some way connected with the nose; and men rubbed their own anxiously, to be sure that nothing catching was in the air. - [44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/44/) — Matters had been in this state for more than a week when it reached the ears of the king that a man was living in an inn on the other side of the town who declared himself able to cure all manner of diseases. - [45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/45/) — Instantly the royal carriage was commanded to drive with all speed and bring back this magician, offering him riches untold if he could restore their noses to their former length. - [46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/46/) — Tiidu had expected this summons, and had sat up all night changing his appearance, and so well had he succeeded that not a trace remained either of the piper or of the apple seller. - [47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/47/) — He stepped into the carriage, and was driven post haste to the king, who was feverishly counting every moment, for both his nose and the queen’s were by this time more than a yard long, and they did not know where they would stop. - [48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/48/) — Now Tiidu thought it would not look well to cure the royal family by giving them the raw nuts; he felt that it might arouse suspicion. - [49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/49/) — So he had carefully pounded them into a powder, and divided the powder up into small doses, which were to be put on the tongue and swallowed at once. - [50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/50/) — He gave one of these to the king and another to the queen, and told them that before taking them they were to get into bed in a dark room and not to move for some hours, after which they might be sure that they would come out cured. - [51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/51/) — The king’s joy was so great at this news that he would gladly have given Tiidu half of his kingdom; but the piper was no longer so greedy of money as he once was, before he had been shipwrecked on the island. - [52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/52/) — If he could get enough to buy a small estate and live comfortably on it for the rest of his life, that was all he now cared for. - [53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/53/) — However, the king ordered his treasure to pay him three times as much as he asked, and with this Tiidu went down to the harbour and engaged a small ship to carry him back to his native country. - [54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/54/) — The wind was fair, and in ten days the coast, which he had almost forgotten, stood clear before him. - [55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/55/) — In a few hours he was standing in his old home, where his father, three sisters, and two brothers gave him a hearty welcome. - [56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/56/) — His mother and his other brothers had died some years before. - [57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/57/) — When the meeting was over, he began to make inquiries about a small estate that was for sale near the town, and after he had bought it the next thing was to find a wife to share it with him. - [58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/58/) — This did not take long either; and people who were at the wedding feast declared that the best part of the whole day was the hour when Tiidu played to them on the pipes before they bade each other farewell and returned to their homes. - [59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/59/) — \[From Esthnische Mährchen.\] - [60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/60/) — Paperarelloo - [61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/61/) — Once upon a time there lived a king and a queen who had one son. - [62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/62/) — The king loved the boy very much, but the queen, who was a wicked woman, hated the sight of him; and this was the more unlucky for, when he was twelve years old, his father died, and he was left alone in the world. - [63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/63/) — Now the queen was very angry because the people, who knew how bad she was, seated her son on the throne instead of herself, and she never rested till she had formed a plan to get him out of the way. - [64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/64/) — Fortunately, however, the young king was wise and prudent, and knew her too well to trust her. — checked by a teacher - [65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/65/) — One day, when his mourning was over, he gave orders that everything should be made ready for a grand hunt. - [66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/66/) — The queen pretended to be greatly delighted that he was going to amuse himself once more, and declared that she would accompany him. — checked by a teacher - [67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/67/) — “No, mother, I cannot let you come,” he answered; “the ground is rough, and you are not strong.” - [68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/68/) — But he might as well have spoken to the winds: when the horn was sounded at daybreak the queen was there with the rest. - [69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/69/) — All that day they rode, for game was plentiful, but towards evening the mother and son found themselves alone in a part of the country that was strange to them. - [70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/70/) — They wandered on for some time, without knowing where they were going, till they met with a man whom they begged to give them shelter. - [71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/71/) — “Come with me,” said the man gladly, for he was an ogre, and fed on human flesh; and the king and his mother went with him, and he led them to his house. - [72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/72/) — When they got there they found to what a dreadful place they had come, and, falling on their knees, they offered him great sums of money, if he would only spare their lives. - [73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/73/) — The ogre’s heart was moved at the sight of the queen’s beauty, and he promised that he would do her no harm; but he stabbed the boy at once, and binding his body on a horse, turned him loose in the forest. - [74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/74/) — The ogre had happened to choose a horse which he had bought only the day before, and he did not know it was a magician, or he would not have been so foolish as to fix upon it on this occasion. - [75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/75/) — The horse no sooner had been driven off with the prince’s body on its back than it galloped straight to the home of the fairies, and knocked at the door with its hoof. - [76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/76/) — The fairies heard the knock, but were afraid to open till they had peeped from an upper window to see that it was no giant or ogre who could do them harm. - [77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/77/) — “Oh, look, sister!” cried the first to reach the window, “it is a horse that has knocked, and on its back there is bound a dead boy, the most beautiful boy in all the world!” - [78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/78/) — Then the fairies ran to open the door, and let in the horse and unbound the ropes which fastened the young king on its back. - [79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/79/) — And they gathered round to admire his beauty, and whispered one to the other: “We will make him alive again, and will keep him for our brother.” - [80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/80/) — And so they did, and for many years they all lived together as brothers and sisters. - [81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/81/) — By-and-by the boy grew into a man, as boys will, and then the oldest of the fairies said to her sisters: “Now I will marry him, and he shall be really your brother.” - [82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/82/) — So the young king married the fairy, and they lived happily together in the castle; but though he loved his wife he still longed to see the world. - [83](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/83/) — At length this longing grew so strong on him that he could bear it no more; and, calling the fairies together, he said to them: “Dear wife and sisters, I must leave you for a time, and go out and see the world. - [84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/84/) — But I shall think of you often, and one day I shall come back to you.” - [85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/85/) — The fairies wept and begged him to stay, but he would not listen, and at last the eldest, who was his wife, said to him: “If you really will abandon us, take this lock of my hair with you; you will find it useful in time of need.” - [86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/86/) — So she cut off a long curl, and handed it to him. - [87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/87/) — The prince mounted his horse, and rode on all day without stopping once. - [88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/88/) — Towards evening he found himself in a desert, and, look where he would, there was no such thing as a house or a man to be seen. - [89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/89/) — “What am I to do now?” he thought. - [90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/90/) — “If I go to sleep here wild beasts will come and eat me! - [91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/91/) — Yet both I and my horse are worn out, and can go no further.” - [92](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/92/) — Then suddenly he remembered the fairy’s gift, and taking out the curl he said to it: “I want a castle here, and servants, and dinner, and everything to make me comfortable tonight; and besides that, I must have a stable and fodder for my horse.” - [93](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/93/) — And in a moment the castle was before him just as he had wished. - ← previous: [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/11/) - next →: [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/13/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/)