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title: The Brown Fairy Book, part 8 — The Brown Fairy Book · full text with trees · page 2
description: The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: By-and-by some travellers came past, and the chief among them asked leave to marry Ball-Carrier’s daughter.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, part 8 · page 2

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- [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/8/101/) — “The water! the water!” gasped one of the young men; and there it was, slowly but steadily mounting the ridge itself.
- [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/8/102/) — Parents and children clung together, as if by that means they could drive back the advancing flood; and the youth who had caused all this terrible catastrophe, seized his sweetheart, and cried: “I will climb with you to the top of that tree, and there no waters can reach us.”
- [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/8/103/) — But, as he spoke, something cold touched him, and quickly he glanced down at his feet.
- [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/8/104/) — Then with a shudder he saw that they were feet no longer, but bird’s claws.
- [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/8/105/) — He looked at the girl he was clasping, and beheld a great black bird standing at his side; he turned to his friends, but a flock of great awkward flapping creatures stood in their place He put up his hands to cover his face, but they were no more hands, only the ends of wings; and when he tried to speak, a noise such as he had never heard before seemed to come from his throat, which had suddenly become narrow and slender.
- [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/8/106/) — Already the water had risen to his waist, and he found himself sitting easily upon it, while its surface reflected back the image of a black swan, one of many.

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