--- title: The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33 — The Lilac Fairy Book · full text with trees · page 2 description: The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: On the way she met a beautiful carriage with a young man seated in it. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/33/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 33 # The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33 · page 2 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/33/) **2** - [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/33/101/) — He was sitting on a bench outside an inn, when he heard two men who were loading their mules talking about the Groac’h of the island of Lok. - [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/33/102/) — ‘What is a Groac’h?’ asked he. - [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/33/103/) — ‘I have never come across one.’ - [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/33/104/) — And the men answered that it was the name given to the fairy that dwelt in the lake, and that she was rich--oh! richer than all the kings in the world put together. - [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/33/105/) — Many had gone to the island to try and get possession of her treasures, but no one had ever come back. - [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/33/106/) — As he listened Houarn’s mind was made up. - [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/33/107/) — ‘I will go, and return too,’ he said to the muleteers. - [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/33/108/) — They stared at him in astonishment, and besought him not to be so mad and to throw away his life in such a foolish manner; but he only laughed, and answered that if they could tell him of any other way in which to procure a cow and a pig to fatten, he would think no more about it. - [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/33/109/) — But the men did not know how this was to be done, and, shaking their heads over his obstinacy, left him to his fate. - [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/33/110/) — So Houarn went down to the sea, and found a boatman who engaged to take him to the isle of Lok. - [111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/33/111/) — The island was large, and lying almost across it was a lake, with a narrow opening to the sea. - [112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/33/112/) — Houarn paid the boatman and sent him away, and then proceeded to walk round the lake. - [113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/33/113/) — At one end he perceived a small skiff, painted blue and shaped like a swan, lying under a clump of yellow broom. - [114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/33/114/) — As far as he could see, the swan’s head was tucked under its wing, and Houarn, who had never beheld a boat of the sort, went quickly towards it and stepped in, so as to examine it the better. - [115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/33/115/) — But no sooner was he on board than the swan woke suddenly up; his head emerged from under his wing, his feet began to move in the water, and in another moment they were in the middle of the lake. [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/33/) **2** - ← previous: [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/32/) - next →: [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/34/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/)