--- title: Opening, part 7 — The Orange Fairy Book · full text with trees · page 2 description: Opening, part 7, «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: In an instant she had reached the bottom of the well, and found that the water was not deep enough to cover her legs. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/7/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 7 # Opening, part 7 · page 2 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/7/) **2** - [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/7/101/) — The deer have come down from the hill, and it is time for me to give them chase.' - [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/7/102/) — Then he went away; and when he was no longer in sight, Ian Direach led the bay colt out of the stable, and sprang on her back. - [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/7/103/) — But as they rode through the gate, which stood between the palace and the outer world, the colt swished her tail against the post, which shrieked loudly. - [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/7/104/) — In a moment the king came running up, and he seized the colt's bridle. - [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/7/105/) — 'If you want my bay colt, you must first bring me the daughter of the king of the Franks.' - [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/7/106/) — With slow steps went Ian Direach down to the shore where Gille Mairtean the fox awaited him. - [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/7/107/) — 'Plainly I see that you have not done as I bid you, nor will you ever do it,' spoke Gille Mairtean the fox; 'but I will help you yet again. for a third time I will change myself into a ship, and we will sail to France.' - [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/7/108/) — And to France they sailed, and, as he was the ship, the Gille Mairtean sailed where he would, and ran himself into the cleft of a rock, high on to the land. - [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/7/109/) — Then, he commanded Ian Direach to go up to the king's palace, saying that he had been wrecked, that his ship was made fast in a rock, and that none had been saved but himself only. - [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/7/110/) — Ian Direach listened to the words of the fox, and he told a tale so pitiful, that the king and queen, and the princess their daughter, all came out to hear it. - [111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/7/111/) — And when they had heard, nought would please them except to go down to the shore and visit the ship, which by now was floating, for the tide was up. - [112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/7/112/) — Torn and battered was she, as if she had passed through many dangers, yet music of a wondrous sweetness poured forth from within. [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/7/) **2** - ← previous: [Opening, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/6/) - next →: [Opening, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/8/) - ↑ back to [The Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/)