--- title: Jorinde and Joringel — The Green Fairy Book · full text with trees description: Jorinde and Joringel, «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: There was once upon a time a castle in the middle of a thick wood where lived an old woman quite alone, for she was an enchantress. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/41/) [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 Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/) / Jorinde and Joringel # Jorinde and Joringel Jorinde and Joringel of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang: the whole text, 47 sentences and 975 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/pg7277/41/1/) — There was once upon a time a castle in the middle of a thick wood where lived an old woman quite alone, for she was an enchantress. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/41/2/) — In the day-time she changed herself into a cat or a night-owl, but in the evening she became like an ordinary woman again. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/41/3/) — She could entice animals and birds to come to her, and then she would kill and cook them. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/41/4/) — If any youth came within a hundred paces of the castle, he was obliged to stand still, and could not stir from the spot till she set him free; but if a pretty girl came within this boundary, the old enchantress changed her into a bird, and shut her up in a wicker cage, which she put in one of the rooms in the castle. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/41/5/) — She had quite seven thousand of such cages in the castle with very rare birds in them. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/41/6/) — Now, there was once a maiden called Jorinde, who was more beautiful than other maidens. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/41/7/) — She and a youth named Joringel, who was just as good-looking as she was, were betrothed to one another. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/41/8/) — Their greatest delight was to be together, and so that they might get a good long talk, they went one evening for a walk in the wood. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/41/9/) — ‘Take care,’ said Joringel, ‘not to come too close to the castle.’ - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/41/10/) — It was a beautiful evening; the sun shone brightly between the stems of the trees among the dark green leaves of the forest, and the turtle-dove sang clearly on the old maybushes. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/41/11/) — Jorinde wept from time to time, and she sat herself down in the sunshine and lamented, and Joringel lamented too. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/41/12/) — They felt as sad as if they had been condemned to die; they looked round and got quite confused, and did not remember which was their way home. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/41/13/) — Half the sun was still above the mountain and half was behind it when Joringel looked through the trees and saw the old wall of the castle quite near them. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/41/14/) — He was terrified and half dead with fright. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/41/15/) — Jorinde sang: - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/41/16/) — ‘My little bird with throat so red Sings sorrow, sorrow, sorrow; He sings to the little dove that’s dead, Sings sorrow, sor--jug, jug, jug.’ - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/41/17/) — Joringel looked up at Jorinde. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/41/18/) — She had been changed into a nightingale, who was singing ‘jug, jug.’ - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/41/19/) — A night-owl with glowing eyes flew three times round her, and screeched three times ‘tu-whit, tu-whit, tu-whoo.’ - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/41/20/) — Joringel could not stir; he stood there like a stone; he could not weep, or speak, or move hand or foot. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/41/21/) — Now the sun set; the owl flew into a bush, and immediately an old, bent woman came out of it; she was yellow-skinned and thin, and had large red eyes and a hooked nose, which met her chin. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/41/22/) — She muttered to herself, caught the nightingale, and carried her away in her hand. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/41/23/) — Joringel could say nothing; he could not move from the spot, and the nightingale was gone. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/41/24/) — At last the woman came back again, and said in a gruff voice, ‘Good evening, Zachiel; when the young moon shines in the basket, you are freed early, Zachiel.’ - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/41/25/) — Then Joringel was free. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/41/26/) — He fell on his knees before the old woman and implored her to give him back his Jorinde, but she said he should never have her again, and then went away. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/41/27/) — He called after her, he wept and lamented, but all in vain. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/41/28/) — ‘What is to become of me!’ he thought. - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/41/29/) — Then he went away, and came at last to a strange village, where he kept sheep for a long time. - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/41/30/) — He often went round the castle while he was there, but never too close. - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/41/31/) — At last he dreamt one night that he had found a blood-red flower, which had in its centre a beautiful large pearl. - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/41/32/) — He plucked this flower and went with it to the castle; and there everything which he touched with the flower was freed from the enchantment, and he got his Jorinde back again through it. - [33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/41/33/) — When he awoke in the morning he began to seek mountain and valley to find such a flower. - [34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/41/34/) — He sought it for eight days, and on the ninth early in the morning he found the blood-red flower. - [35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/41/35/) — In its centre was a large dew-drop, as big as the most lovely pearl. - [36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/41/36/) — He travelled day and night with this flower till he arrived at the castle. - [37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/41/37/) — When he came within a hundred paces of it he did not cease to be able to move, but he went on till he reached the gate. - [38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/41/38/) — He was delighted at his success, touched the great gate with the flower, and it sprung open. - [39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/41/39/) — He entered, passed through the courtyard, and then stopped to listen for the singing of the birds; at last he heard it. - [40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/41/40/) — He went in and found the hall in which was the enchantress, and with her seven thousand birds in their wicker cages. - [41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/41/41/) — When she saw Joringel she was furious, and breathed out poison and gall at him, but she could not move a step towards him. - [42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/41/42/) — He took no notice of her, and went and looked over the cages of birds; but there were many hundred nightingales, and how was he to find his Jorinde from among them? - [43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/41/43/) — Whilst he was considering, he observed the old witch take up a cage secretly and go with it towards the door. - [44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/41/44/) — Instantly he sprang after her, touched the cage with the flower, and the old woman as well. - [45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/41/45/) — Now she could no longer work enchantments, and there stood Jorinde before him, with her arms round his neck, and more beautiful than ever. - [46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/41/46/) — Then he turned all the other birds again into maidens, and he went home with his Jorinde, and they lived a long and happy life. - [47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/41/47/) — Grimm. - ← previous: [Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/40/) - next →: [Allerleirauh; 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