--- title: The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14 — The Lilac Fairy Book · full text with trees · page 2 description: The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: At the first dawn the proud lady was in the chamber, and led her away, and the footman of the horns put out his tongue at her as she was quittin --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/14/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 Lilac Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/) / The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14 # The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14 · page 2 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/14/) **2** - [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/14/101/) — Let us sail instead to another part of the world.’ - [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/14/102/) — ‘Very well,’ said the dream-boy with the red cap and the silver band; ‘it is not far to America’--and at the same moment they were there. - [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/14/103/) — The sun was shining and it was very warm. - [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/14/104/) — Tall palm trees grew in long rows on the shore and bore coconuts in their top branches. - [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/14/105/) — Men red as copper galloped over the immense green prairies and shot their arrows at the buffaloes, who turned against them with their sharp horns. - [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/14/106/) — An enormous cobra which had crept up the stem of a tall palm tree threw itself on to a little llama that was grazing at the foot. - [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/14/107/) — Knaps! it was all over the little llama. - [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/14/108/) — ‘Shall we land here?’ asked the dream-boy. - [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/14/109/) — ‘No,’ said Little Lasse. - [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/14/110/) — ‘I am so afraid that the buffaloes will butt us, and the great serpent eat us up. - [111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/14/111/) — Let us travel to another part of the world.’ - [112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/14/112/) — ‘Very well,’ said the dream-boy with the white coat, ‘it is only a little way to Polynesia’--and then they were there. - [113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/14/113/) — It was very warm there, as warm as in a hot bath in Finland. - [114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/14/114/) — Costly spices grew on the shores: the pepper plant, the cinnamon tree, ginger, saffron; the coffee plant and the tea plant. - [115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/14/115/) — Brown people with long ears and thick lips, and hideously painted faces, hunted a yellow-spotted tiger among the high bamboos on the shore, and the tiger turned on them and stuck its claws into one of the brown men. - [116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/14/116/) — Then all the others took to flight. - [117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/14/117/) — ‘Shall we land here?’ asked the dream-boy. - [118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/14/118/) — ‘No,’ said Little Lasse. - [119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/14/119/) — ‘Don’t you see the tiger away there by the pepper plant? - [120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/14/120/) — Let us travel to another part of the world.’ - [121](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/14/121/) — ‘We can do so,’ said the dream-boy with the blue eyes. - [122](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/14/122/) — ‘We are not far from Africa’--and as he said that they were there. - [123](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/14/123/) — They anchored at the mouth of a great river where the shores were as green as the greenest velvet. - [124](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/14/124/) — A little distance from the river an immense desert stretched away. - [125](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/14/125/) — The air was yellow; the sun shone so hot, so hot as if it would burn the earth to ashes, and the people were as black as the blackest jet. - [126](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/14/126/) — They rode across the desert on tall camels; the lions roared with thirst, and the great crocodiles with their grey lizard heads and sharp white teeth gaped up out of the river. - [127](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/14/127/) — ‘Shall we land here?’ asked the dream-boy. - [128](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/14/128/) — ‘No,’ said Little Lasse. - [129](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/14/129/) — ‘The sun would burn us, and the lions and the crocodiles would eat us up. - [130](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/14/130/) — Let us travel to another part of the world.’ - [131](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/14/131/) — ‘We can travel back to Europe,’ said the dream-boy with the fair hair. - [132](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/14/132/) — And with that they were there. — checked by a teacher - [133](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/14/133/) — They came to a shore where it was all so cool and familiar and friendly. - [134](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/14/134/) — There stood the tall birch tree with its drooping leaves; at the top sat the old crow, and at its foot crept the gardener’s black cat. - [135](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/14/135/) — Not far away was a house which Little Lasse had seen before; near the house there was a garden, and in the garden a pea bed with long pea shells. - [136](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/14/136/) — An old gardener with a green coat walked about and wondered if the cucumbers were ripe. - [137](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/14/137/) — Fylax was barking on the steps, and when he saw Little Lasse he wagged his tail. - [138](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/14/138/) — Old Stina was milking the cows in the farmyard, and there was a very familiar lady in a check woollen shawl on her way to the bleaching green to see if the clothes were bleached. - [139](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/14/139/) — There was, too, a well-known gentleman in a yellow summer coat, with a long pipe in his mouth; he was going to see if the reapers had cut the rye. - [140](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/14/140/) — A boy and a girl were running on the shore and calling out, ‘Little Lasse! - [141](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/14/141/) — Come home for bread-and-butter!’ - [142](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/14/142/) — ‘Shall we land here?’ asked the dream-boy, and he blinked his blue eyes roguishly. - [143](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/14/143/) — ‘Come with me, and I shall ask mother to give you some bread-and-butter and a glass of milk,’ said Little Lasse. - [144](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/14/144/) — ‘Wait a little,’ said the dream-boy. - [145](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/14/145/) — And now Little Lasse saw that the kitchen door was open, and from within there was heard a low, pleasant frizzling, like that which is heard when one whisks yellow batter with a wooden ladle into a hot frying-pan. - [146](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/14/146/) — ‘Perhaps we should sail back to Polynesia now?’ said the happy dream-boy. 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