XLIX. Yallery Brown XLIX. Yallery Brown of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 10 sentences and 141 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself.
1 _Source. 2 _--Mrs. Balfour's "Legends of the Lincolnshire Fens," in _Folk-Lore_, ii. 3 It was told to Mrs. Balfour by a labourer, who professed to be the hero of the story, and related it in the first person. 4 I have given him a name, and changed the narration into the oblique narration, and toned down the dialect. 5 _Parallels. 6 _--"Tiddy Mun," the hero of another of Mrs. Balfour's legends (_l.c. 7 _, p. 151) was "none bigger 'n a three years old bairn," and had no proper name. 8 _Remarks. 9 _--One might almost suspect Mrs. Balfour of being the victim of a piece of invention on the part of her autobiographical informant. 10 But the scrap of verse, especially in its original dialect, has such a folkish ring that it is probable he was only adapting a local legend to his own circumstances. ← previous XLVIII. the Black Bull of Norrowaynext → L. the Three Feathers↑ back to More English Fairy Tales This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/40/