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title: The Golden Mermaid — The Green Fairy Book · full text with trees · page 2
description: The Golden Mermaid, «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: A powerful king had, among many other treasures, a wonderful tree in his garden, which bore every year beautiful golden apples.
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# The Golden Mermaid · page 2

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- [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/52/101/) — They turned as white as death when they saw their brother, whom they thought they had murdered, standing beside them alive and well, and so startled were they that when the King asked them why they had behaved so wickedly to their brother they could think of no lie, but confessed at once that they had slain the young Prince in order to obtain possession of the golden horse and the golden bird.
- [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/52/102/) — Their father’s wrath knew no bounds, and he ordered them both to be banished, but he could not do enough to honour his youngest son, and his marriage with the beautiful mermaid was celebrated with much pomp and magnificence.
- [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/52/103/) — When the festivities were over, the wolf bade them all farewell, and returned once more to his life in the woods, much to the regret of the old King and the young Prince and his bride.
- [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/52/104/) — And so ended the adventures of the Prince with his friend the wolf.
- [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/52/105/) — Grimm.

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