XLVI. the Golden Ball XLVI. the Golden Ball of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 11 sentences and 121 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself.
1 _Source. 2 _--Contributed to the first edition of Henderson's _Folk-Lore of the Northern Counties_, pp. 3 333-5, by Rev. S. Baring-Gould. 4 _Parallels. 5 _--Mr. Nutt gave a version in _Folk-Lore Journal_, vi., 144. 6 The man in instalments occurs in "The Strange Visitor" (No. xxxii.). 7 The latter part of the tale has been turned into a game for English children, "Mary Brown," given in Miss Plunket's _Merry Games_, but not included in Newell, _Games and Songs of American Children_. 8 _Remarks. 9 _--This story is especially interesting as having given rise to a game. 10 Capture and imprisonment are frequently the gruesome _motif_ of children's games, as in "Prisoner's base." 11 Here it has been used with romantic effect. ← previous XLV. Hereafterthisnext → XLVII. My Own Self↑ back to More English Fairy Tales This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/37/