--- title: Kari Woodengown, part 3 — The Red Fairy Book · full text with trees · page 2 description: Kari Woodengown, part 3, «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: He had not gone far when he met friend Fox, on his rounds that way. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/31/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 Red Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/) / Kari Woodengown, part 3 # Kari Woodengown, part 3 · page 2 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/31/) **2** - [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/31/101/) — He could not get over it. - [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/31/102/) — Nevertheless, he remembered shortly what he had come for to the palace, and improving the occasion, he set to work to hunt for his dear money. - [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/31/103/) — But in vain he rummaged in all the drawers; he found nothing; all had been spent. - [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/31/104/) — And ferreting thus from room to room he came at last to the one with the throne in it, and feeling fatigued, he sat himself down on it to think over his adventure. - [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/31/105/) — In the meanwhile the people had found their King and his ministers with their feet in the air on the pavement, and they had gone into the palace to know how it had occurred. - [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/31/106/) — On entering the throne-room, when the crowd saw that there was already someone on the royal seat, they broke out in cries of surprise and joy: - [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/31/107/) — ‘The King is dead, long live the King! - [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/31/108/) — Heaven has sent us down this thing.’ - [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/31/109/) — Drakestail, who was no longer surprised at anything, received the acclamations of the people as if he had never done anything else all his life. - [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/31/110/) — A few of them certainly murmured that a Drakestail would make a fine King; those who knew him replied that a knowing Drakestail was a more worthy King than a spendthrift like him who was lying on the pavement. - [111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/31/111/) — In short, they ran and took the crown off the head of the deceased, and placed it on that of Drakestail, whom it fitted like wax. - [112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/31/112/) — Thus he became King. - [113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/31/113/) — ‘And now,’ said he after the ceremony, ‘ladies and gentlemen, let’s go to supper. - [114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/31/114/) — I am so hungry!’ - [115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/31/115/) — \[15\] - [116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/31/116/) — \[15\] \_Contes\_ of Ch. - [117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/31/117/) — Marelles. [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/31/) **2** - ← previous: [Kari Woodengown, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/30/) - next →: [The Ratcatcher](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/32/) - ↑ back to [The Red Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/)