--- title: The Hen That Lays Golden Eggs. — The Red Fairy Book · full text with trees description: The Hen That Lays Golden Eggs., «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: The Giant came in to supper. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/17/) [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 Red Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/) / The Hen That Lays Golden Eggs. # The Hen That Lays Golden Eggs. The Hen That Lays Golden Eggs. of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang: the whole text, 21 sentences and 367 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/17/1/) — The Giant came in to supper. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/17/2/) — Jack watched him through the keyhole, and was amazed to see him pick a wolf’s bone, and put half a fowl at a time into his capacious mouth. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/17/3/) — When the supper was ended he bade his wife bring him his hen that laid the golden eggs. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/17/4/) — ‘It lays as well as it did when it belonged to that paltry knight,’ he said; ‘indeed I think the eggs are heavier than ever.’ - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/17/5/) — The Giantess went away, and soon returned with a little brown hen, which she placed on the table before her husband. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/17/6/) — ‘And now, my dear,’ she said, ‘I am going for a walk, if you don’t want me any longer.’ - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/17/7/) — ‘Go,’ said the Giant; ‘I shall be glad to have a nap by-and-by.’ - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/17/8/) — Then he took up the brown hen and said to her: - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/17/9/) — ‘Lay!’ - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/17/10/) — And she instantly laid a golden egg. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/17/11/) — ‘Lay!’ said the Giant again. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/17/12/) — And she laid another. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/17/13/) — ‘Lay!’ he repeated the third time. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/17/14/) — And again a golden egg lay on the table. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/17/15/) — Now Jack was sure this hen was that of which the fairy had spoken. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/17/16/) — By-and-by the Giant put the hen down on the floor, and soon after went fast asleep, snoring so loud that it sounded like thunder. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/17/17/) — Directly Jack perceived that the Giant was fast asleep, he pushed open the door of the wardrobe and crept out; very softly he stole across the room, and, picking up the hen, made haste to quit the apartment. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/17/18/) — He knew the way to the kitchen, the door of which he found was left ajar; he opened it, shut and locked it after him, and flew back to the Beanstalk, which he descended as fast as his feet would move. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/17/19/) — When his mother saw him enter the house she wept for joy, for she had feared that the fairies had carried him away, or that the Giant had found him. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/17/20/) — But Jack put the brown hen down before her, and told her how he had been in the Giant’s castle, and all his adventures. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/17/21/) — She was very glad to see the hen, which would make them rich once more. - ← previous: [Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/16/) - next →: [The Money Bags.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/18/) - ↑ back to [The Red Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/)