--- title: The Lilac Fairy Book, part 40 — The Lilac Fairy Book · full text with trees description: The Lilac Fairy Book, part 40, «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: After this, on a certain day, as Gwythyr was walking across a mountain he heard a grievous cry, and he hastened towards it. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/40/) [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 40 # The Lilac Fairy Book, part 40 The Lilac Fairy Book, part 40 of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang: the whole text, 16 sentences and 406 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/40/1/) — After this, on a certain day, as Gwythyr was walking across a mountain he heard a grievous cry, and he hastened towards it. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/40/2/) — In a little valley he saw the heather burning and the fire spreading fast towards the anthill, and all the ants were hurrying to and fro, not knowing whither to go. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/40/3/) — Gwythyr had pity on them, and put out the fire, and in gratitude the ants brought him the nine bushels of flax seed which Yspaddaden Penkawr required of Kilweh. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/40/4/) — And many of the other marvels were done likewise by Arthur and his knights, and at last it came to the fight with Trwyth the board, to obtain the comb and the scissors and the razor that lay between his ears. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/40/5/) — But hard was the boar to catch, and fiercely did he fight when Arthur’s men gave him battle, so that many of them were slain. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/40/6/) — Up and down the country went Trwyth the boar, and Arthur followed after him, till they came to the Severn sea. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/40/7/) — There three knights caught his feet unawares and plunged him into the water, while one snatched the razor from him, and another seized the scissors. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/40/8/) — But before they laid hold of the comb he had shaken them all off, and neither man nor horse nor dog could reach him till he came to Cornwall, whither Arthur had sworn he should not go. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/40/9/) — Thither Arthur followed after him with his knights, and if it had been hard to win the razor and the scissors, the struggle for the comb was fiercer still, but at length Arthur prevailed, and the boar was driven into the sea. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/40/10/) — And whether he was drowned or where he went no man knows to this day. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/40/11/) — In the end all the marvels were done, and Kilweh set forward, and with him Goreu, the son of Custennin, to Yspaddaden Penkawr, bearing in their hands the razor, the scissors and the comb, and Yspaddaden Penkawr was shaved by Kaw. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/40/12/) — ‘Is thy daughter mine now?’ asked Kilweh. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/40/13/) — ‘She is thine,’ answered Yspaddaden, ‘but it is Arthur and none other who has won her for thee. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/40/14/) — Of my own free will thou shouldst never have had her, for now I must lose my life.’ - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/40/15/) — And as he spake Goreu the son of Custennin cut off his head, as if had been ordained, and Arthur’s hosts returned each man to his own country. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/40/16/) — From the ‘Mabinogion.’ - ← previous: [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/39/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/)