--- title: The Talking Harp. — The Red Fairy Book · full text with trees description: The Talking Harp., «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: So he climbed the Beanstalk once more, and blew the horn at the Giant’s gate. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/19/) [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 Talking Harp. # The Talking Harp. The Talking Harp. of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang: the whole text, 22 sentences and 373 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/pg540/19/1/) — So he climbed the Beanstalk once more, and blew the horn at the Giant’s gate. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/19/2/) — The Giantess soon opened the door; she was very stupid, and did not know him again, but she stopped a minute before she took him in. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/19/3/) — She feared another robbery; but Jack’s fresh face looked so innocent that she could not resist him, and so she bade him come in, and again hid him away in the wardrobe. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/19/4/) — By-and-by the Giant came home, and as soon as he had crossed the threshold he roared out: - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/19/5/) — ‘Fe, fa, fi-fo-fum, I smell the breath of an Englishman. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/19/6/) — Let him be alive or let him be dead, I’ll grind his bones to make my bread.’ - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/19/7/) — ‘You stupid old Giant,’ said his wife, ‘you only smell a nice sheep, which I have grilled for your dinner.’ - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/19/8/) — And the Giant sat down, and his wife brought up a whole sheep for his dinner. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/19/9/) — When he had eaten it all up, he said: - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/19/10/) — ‘Now bring me my harp, and I will have a little music while you take your walk.’ - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/19/11/) — The Giantess obeyed, and returned with a beautiful harp. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/19/12/) — The framework was all sparkling with diamonds and rubies, and the strings were all of gold. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/19/13/) — ‘This is one of the nicest things I took from the knight,’ said the Giant. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/19/14/) — ‘I am very fond of music, and my harp is a faithful servant.’ - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/19/15/) — So he drew the harp towards him, and said: - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/19/16/) — ‘Play!’ - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/19/17/) — And the harp played a very soft, sad air. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/19/18/) — ‘Play something merrier!’ said the Giant. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/19/19/) — And the harp played a merry tune. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/19/20/) — ‘Now play me a lullaby,’ roared the Giant; and the harp played a sweet lullaby, to the sound of which its master fell asleep. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/19/21/) — Then Jack stole softly out of the wardrobe, and went into the huge kitchen to see if the Giantess had gone out; he found no one there, so he went to the door and opened it softly, for he thought he could not do so with the harp in his hand. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/19/22/) — Then he entered the Giant’s room and seized the harp and ran away with it; but as he jumped over the threshold the harp called out: - ← previous: [The Money Bags.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/18/) - next →: [‘master! Master!’](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/20/) - ↑ back to [The Red Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/)