--- title: The Pink Fairy Book, part 5 — The Pink Fairy Book · full text with trees · page 2 description: The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: ‘“My fate was quite different,” said the iron pot, near which the matches lay. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/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 Pink Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/) / The Pink Fairy Book, part 5 # The Pink Fairy Book, part 5 · page 2 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/) **2** [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/page/3/) - [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/101/) — The lady-birches waved in the wind; and when the sun shone, everything glittered and sparkled as if it were sprinkled with diamond dust, and great diamonds were lying on the snowy carpet. - [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/102/) — ‘Isn’t it wonderful?’ exclaimed a girl who was walking with a young man in the garden. - [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/103/) — They stopped near the Snow-man, and looked at the glistening trees. - [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/104/) — ‘Summer cannot show a more beautiful sight,’ she said, with her eyes shining. - [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/105/) — ‘And one can’t get a fellow like this in summer either,’ said the young man, pointing to the Snow-man. - [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/106/) — ‘He’s a beauty!’ - [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/107/) — The girl laughed, and nodded to the Snow-man, and then they both danced away over the snow. - [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/108/) — ‘Who were those two?’ asked the Snow-man of the yard-dog. - [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/109/) — ‘You have been in this yard longer than I have. - [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/110/) — Do you know who they are?’ - [111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/111/) — ‘Do I know them indeed?’ answered the yard-dog. - [112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/112/) — ‘She has often stroked me, and he has given me bones. - [113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/113/) — I don’t bite either of them!’ - [114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/114/) — ‘But what are they?’ asked the Snow-man. - [115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/115/) — ‘Lovers!’ replied the yard-dog. - [116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/116/) — ‘They will go into one kennel and gnaw the same bone!’ - [117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/117/) — ‘Are they the same kind of beings that we are?’ asked the Snow-man. - [118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/118/) — ‘They are our masters,’ answered the yard-dog. - [119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/119/) — ‘Really people who have only been in the world one day know very little.’ - [120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/120/) — That’s the conclusion I have come to. - [121](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/121/) — Now I have age and wisdom; I know everyone in the house, and I can remember a time when I was not lying here in a cold kennel. - [122](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/122/) — Bow-wow!’ - [123](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/123/) — ‘The cold is splendid,’ said the Snow-man. - [124](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/124/) — ‘Tell me some more. - [125](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/125/) — But don’t rattle your chain so, it makes me crack!’ - [126](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/126/) — ‘Bow-wow!’ barked the yard-dog. - [127](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/127/) — ‘They used to say I was a pretty little fellow; then I lay in a velvet-covered chair in my master’s house. - [128](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/128/) — My mistress used to nurse me, and kiss and fondle me, and call me her dear, sweet little Alice! - [129](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/129/) — But by-and-by I grew too big, and I was given to the housekeeper, and I went into the kitchen. - [130](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/130/) — You can see into it from where you are standing; you can look at the room in which I was master, for so I was when I was with the housekeeper. - [131](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/131/) — Of course it was a smaller place than upstairs, but it was more comfortable, for I wasn’t chased about and teased by the children as I had been before. - [132](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/132/) — My food was just as good, or even better. - [133](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/133/) — I had my own pillow, and there was a stove there, which at this time of year is the most beautiful thing in the world. - [134](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/134/) — I used to creep right under that stove. - [135](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/135/) — Ah me! - [136](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/136/) — I often dream of that stove still! - [137](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/137/) — Bow-wow!’ - [138](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/138/) — ‘Is a stove so beautiful?’ asked the Snow-man. - [139](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/139/) — ‘Is it anything like me?’ - [140](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/140/) — ‘It is just the opposite of you! - [141](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/141/) — It is coal-black, and has a long neck with a brass pipe. - [142](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/142/) — It eats firewood, so that fire spouts out of its mouth. - [143](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/143/) — One has to keep close beside it-quite underneath is the nicest of all. - [144](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/144/) — You can see it through the window from where you are standing.’ - [145](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/145/) — And the Snow-man looked in that direction, and saw a smooth polished object with a brass pipe. - [146](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/146/) — The flicker from the fire reached him across the snow. - [147](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/147/) — The Snow-man felt wonderfully happy, and a feeling came over him which he could not express; but all those who are not snow-men know about it. - [148](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/148/) — ‘Why did you leave her?’ asked the Snow-man. - [149](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/149/) — He had a feeling that such a being must be a lady. - [150](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/150/) — ‘How could you leave such a place?’ - [151](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/151/) — ‘I had to!’ said the yard-dog. - [152](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/152/) — ‘They turned me out of doors, and chained me up here. - [153](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/153/) — I had bitten the youngest boy in the leg, because he took away the bone I was gnawing; a bone for a bone, I thought! - [154](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/154/) — But they were very angry, and from that time I have been chained here, and I have lost my voice. - [155](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/155/) — Don’t you hear how hoarse I am? - [156](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/156/) — Bow-wow! - [157](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/157/) — I can’t speak like other dogs. - [158](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/158/) — Bow-wow! - [159](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/159/) — That was the end of happiness!’ - [160](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/160/) — The Snow-man, however, was not listening to him any more; he was looking into the room where the housekeeper lived, where the stove stood on its four iron legs, and seemed to be just the same size as the Snow-man. - [161](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/161/) — ‘How something is cracking inside me!’ he said. - [162](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/162/) — ‘Shall I never be able to get in there? - [163](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/163/) — It is certainly a very innocent wish, and our innocent wishes ought to be fulfilled. - [164](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/164/) — I must get there, and lean against the stove, if I have to break the window first!’ - [165](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/165/) — ‘You will never get inside there!’ said the yard-dog; ‘and if you were to reach the stove you would disappear. - [166](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/166/) — Bow-wow!’ - [167](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/167/) — ‘I’m as good as gone already!’ answered the Snow-man. - [168](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/168/) — ‘I believe I’m breaking up!’ - [169](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/169/) — The whole day the Snow-man looked through the window; towards dusk the room grew still more inviting; the stove gave out a mild light, not at all like the moon or even the sun; no, as only a stove can shine, when it has something to feed upon. - [170](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/170/) — When the door of the room was open, it flared up-this was one of its peculiarities; it flickered quite red upon the Snow-man’s white face. - [171](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/171/) — ‘I can’t stand it any longer!’ he said. - [172](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/172/) — ‘How beautiful it looks with its tongue stretched out like that!’ - [173](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/173/) — It was a long night, but the Snow-man did not find it so; there he stood, wrapt in his pleasant thoughts, and they froze, so that he cracked. - [174](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/174/) — Next morning the panes of the kitchen window were covered with ice, and the most beautiful ice-flowers that even a snow-man could desire, only they blotted out the stove. - [175](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/175/) — The window would not open; he couldn’t see the stove which he thought was such a lovely lady. - [176](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/176/) — There was a cracking and cracking inside him and all around; there was just such a frost as a snow-man would delight in. - [177](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/177/) — But this Snow-man was different: how could he feel happy? - [178](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/178/) — ‘Yours is a bad illness for a Snow-man!’ said the yard-dog. - [179](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/179/) — ‘I also suffered from it, but I have got over it. - [180](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/180/) — Bow-wow!’ he barked. - [181](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/181/) — ‘The weather is going to change!’ he added. - [182](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/182/) — The weather did change. - [183](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/183/) — There came a thaw. - [184](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/184/) — When this set in the Snow-man set off. - [185](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/185/) — He did not say anything, and he did not complain, and those are bad signs. - [186](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/186/) — One morning he broke up altogether. - [187](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/187/) — And lo! where he had stood there remained a broomstick standing upright, round which the boys had built him! - [188](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/188/) — ‘Ah! now I understand why he loved the stove,’ said the yard-dog. - [189](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/189/) — ‘That is the raker they use to clean out the stove! - [190](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/190/) — The Snow-man had a stove-raker in his body! - [191](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/191/) — That’s what was the matter with him! - [192](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/192/) — And now it’s all over with him! - [193](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/193/) — Bow-wow!’ - [194](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/194/) — And before long it was all over with the winter too! - [195](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/195/) — ‘Bow-wow!’ barked the hoarse yard-dog. - [196](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/196/) — But the young girl sang: - [197](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/197/) — Woods, your bright green garments don! - [198](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/198/) — Willows, your woolly gloves put on! - [199](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/199/) — Lark and cuckoo, daily sing-- February has brought the spring! - [200](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/200/) — My heart joins in your song so sweet; Come out, dear sun, the world to greet! 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