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description: Opening, part 24, «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: 'Go straight down the path in front of you,' continued the fairy, smiling as she watched her; 'go straight down the path and you will soon reach a little hu
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# Opening, part 24 · page 2

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- [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/24/101/) — She started back at the sight of the prince, whom this time she also recognised.
- [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/24/102/) — But he thrust her aside, and flung himself at the feet of Desiree, to whom he poured out all his heart!
- [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/24/103/) — Dawn found them still conversing; and the sun was high in the heavens before the princess perceived that she retained her human form.
- [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/24/104/) — Ah! how happy she was when she knew that the days of her punishment were over; and with a glad voice she told the prince the tale of her enchantment.
- [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/24/105/) — So the story ended well after all; and the fairy Tulip, who turned out to be the old woman of the hut, made the young couple such a wedding feast as had never been seen since the world began.
- [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/24/106/) — And everybody was delighted, except Cerisette and her mother, who were put in a boat and carried to a small island, where they had to work hard for their living.
- [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/24/107/) — \[Contes des Fees, par Madame d'Aulnoy.\]
- [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/24/108/) — The Girl-Fish
- [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/24/109/) — Once upon a time there lived, on the bank of a stream, a man and a woman who had a daughter.
- [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/24/110/) — As she was an only child, and very pretty besides, they never could make up their minds to punish her for her faults or to teach her nice manners; and as for work-- she laughed in her mother's face if she asked her to help cook the dinner or to wash the plates.
- [111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/24/111/) — All the girl would do was to spend her days in dancing and playing with her friends; and for any use she was to her parents they might as well have no daughter at all.

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