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title: The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31 — The Lilac Fairy Book · full text with trees · page 2
description: The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: ‘There is no man in the world equal to him,’ replied the countess, her cheeks growing red with anger.
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- [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/31/101/) — ‘I am Luned,’ replied a voice from a cave so hidden by bushes and green hanging plants that Owen had not seen it.
- [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/31/102/) — ‘And what dost thou here?’ cried he.
- [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/31/103/) — ‘I am held captive in this cave on account of the knight who married the countess and left her, for the pages spoke ill of him, and because I told them that no man living was his equal they dragged me here and said I should die unless he should come to deliver me by a certain day, and that is no further than the day after to-morrow.
- [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/31/104/) — His name is Owen the son of Urien, but I have none to send to tell him of my danger, or of a surety he would deliver me.’
- [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/31/105/) — Owen held his peace, but gave the maiden some of the meat, and bade her be of good cheer.
- [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/31/106/) — Then, followed by the lion, he set out for a great castle on the other side of the plain, and men came and took his horse and placed it in a manger, and the lion went after and lay down on the straw.
- [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/31/107/) — Hospitable and kind were all within the castle, but so full of sorrow that it might have been thought death was upon them.
- [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/31/108/) — At length, when they had eaten and drunk, Owen prayed the earl to tell him the reason of their grief.
- [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/31/109/) — ‘Yesterday,’ answered the earl, ‘my two sons were seized, while thy were hunting, by a monster who dwells on those mountains yonder, and he vows that he will not let them go unless I give him my daughter to wife.’
- [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/31/110/) — ‘That shall never be,’ said Owen; ‘but what form hath this monster?’

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