---
title: The Pink Fairy Book, part 12 — The Pink Fairy Book · full text with trees · page 2
description: The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: ‘Now I shall live,’ thought the tree joyfully, stretching out its branches wide; but, alas! they were all withered and yellow; and it was lying in
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/12/page/2/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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 Pink Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/) / The Pink Fairy Book, part 12

# The Pink Fairy Book, part 12 · page 2

<!-- pager -->
[1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/12/) **2**

<!-- list vl: b t e -->
- [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/12/101/) — These laughed at him heartily, for they had laboured as hard as they could since daybreak, and had helped each other to fell trees and put them on the carts, so that all of these were now loaded except one.
- [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/12/102/) — Hans got hold of a woodman’s axe and proceeded to fell a tree, but he destroyed the edge and broke the shaft at the first blow.
- [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/12/103/) — He therefore laid down the axe, put his arms round the tree, and pulled it up by the roots.
- [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/12/104/) — This he threw upon his cart, and then another and another, and thus he went on while all the others forgot their work, and stood with open mouths, gazing at this strange woodcraft.
- [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/12/105/) — All at once they began to hurry; the last cart was loaded, and they whipped up their horses, so as to be the first to arrive home.

<!-- pager -->
[1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/12/) **2**

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [The Pink Fairy Book, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/11/)
- next →: [The Pink Fairy Book, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/13/)
- ↑ back to [The Pink Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/)