L. the Three Feathers L. the Three Feathers of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 11 sentences and 167 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself.
1 _Source. 2 _--Collected by Mrs. Gomme from some hop-pickers near Deptford. 3 _Parallels. 4 _--The beginning is _à la_ Cupid and Psyche, on which Mr. Lang's monograph in the Carabas series is the classic authority. 5 The remainder is an Eastern tale, the peregrinations of which have been studied by Mr. Clouston in his _Pop. 6 Tales and Fictions_, ii., 289, _seq. 7 _ _The Wright's Chaste Wife_ is the English _fabliau_ on the subject. 8 M. Bédier, in his recent work on _Les Fabliaux_, pp. 9 411-13, denies the Eastern origin of the _fabliau_, but in his Indiaphobia M. Bédier is _capable de tout_. 10 In the Indian version the various messengers are sent by the king to test the chastity of a peerless wife of whom he has heard. 11 The incident occurs in some versions of the "Battle of the Birds" story (_Celtic Fairy Tales_, No. xxiv.), and considering the wide spread of this in the British Isles, it was possibly from this source that it came to Deptford. ← previous XLIX. Yallery Brownnext → LI. Sir Gammer Vans↑ back to More English Fairy Tales This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/41/