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description: The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: ‘To bring you two gifts which he has just received from the country of the Moors,’ answered Peronnik: ‘the apple of delight and the woman of sub
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28 · page 2

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- [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/28/101/) — ‘For a hundred years no man has swept this byre,’ said the giant, ‘but if by nightfall, when I reach home, thou has not cleaned it so that a golden apple can roll through it from end to end, thy blood shall pay for it.’
- [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/28/102/) — All day long the youth toiled, but he might as well have tried to empty the ocean.
- [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/28/103/) — At length, when he was so tired he could hardly move, the giant’s youngest daughter stood in the doorway.
- [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/28/104/) — ‘Lay down thy weariness,’ said she, and the king’s son, thinking he could only die once, sank on the floor at her bidding, and fell sound asleep.
- [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/28/105/) — When he woke the girl had disappeared, and the byre was so clean that a golden apple could roll from end to end of it.
- [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/28/106/) — He jumped up in surprise, and at that moment in came the giant.
- [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/28/107/) — ‘Hast thou cleaned the byre, king’s son?’ asked he.
- [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/28/108/) — ‘I have cleaned it,’ answered he.
- [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/28/109/) — ‘Well, since thou wert so active to-day, to-morrow thou wilt thatch this byre with a feather from every different bird, or else thy blood shall pay for it,’ and he went out.
- [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/28/110/) — Before the sun was up, the youth took his bow and his quiver and set off to kill the birds. — checked by a teacher
- [111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/28/111/) — Off to the moor he went, but never a bird was to be seen that day.
- [112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/28/112/) — At last he got so tired with running to and fro that he gave up heart.

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