--- title: Opening, part 38 — The Orange Fairy Book · full text with trees · page 2 description: Opening, part 38, «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: 'Oh, my lord, he had the audacity to wish to touch your majesty's sacred person--he, a good-for-nothing boy, a mere shoemaker's apprentice, perhaps! --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/38/page/2/) [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 Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / Opening, part 38 # Opening, part 38 · page 2 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/38/) **2** - [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/38/101/) — When they got to the bottom Hans saw a large number of rooms lit by many lamps and full of beautiful things. - [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/38/102/) — While he was looking round the old man said to him: - [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/38/103/) — 'Now you know what you have to do. - [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/38/104/) — You must keep these rooms clean, and strew sand on the floor every day. - [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/38/105/) — Here is a table where you will always find food and drink, and there is your bed. - [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/38/106/) — You see there are a great many suits of clothes hanging on the wall, and you may wear any you please; but remember that you are never to open this locked door. - [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/38/107/) — If you do ill will befall you. - [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/38/108/) — Farewell, for I am going away again and cannot tell when I may return. - [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/38/109/) — No sooner had the old man disappeared than Hans sat down to a good meal, and after that went to bed and slept until the morning. - [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/38/110/) — At first he could not remember what had happened to him, but by-and-by he jumped up and went into all the rooms, which he examined carefully. - [111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/38/111/) — 'How foolish to bid me to put sand on the floors,' he thought, 'when there is nobody here by myself! - [112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/38/112/) — I shall do nothing of the sort.' - [113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/38/113/) — And so he shut the doors quickly, and only cleaned and set in order his own room. - [114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/38/114/) — And after the first few days he felt that that was unnecessary too, because no one came there to see if the rooms where clean or not. - [115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/38/115/) — At last he did no work at all, but just sat and wondered what was behind the locked door, till he determined to go and look for himself. [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/38/) **2** - ← previous: [Opening, part 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/37/) - next →: [Opening, part 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/39/) - ↑ back to [The Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/)