LVII. the Wee Bannock LVII. the Wee Bannock of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 14 sentences and 170 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself; 2 of them are in the tales treebank and were checked by a teacher model.
1 _Source. 2 _--Chambers's _Popular Rhymes of Scotland_. 3 I have attempted an impossibility, I fear, in trying to anglicise, but the fun of the original tempted me. checked by a teacher 4 There still remain several technical trade terms requiring elucidation. 5 I owe the following to the kindness of the Rev. Mr. Todd Martin, of Belfast. 6 _Lawtrod_ = lap board on which the tailor irons; _tow cards_, the comb with which tow is carded; the _clove_, a heavy wooden knife for breaking up the flax. 7 _Heckling_ is combing it with a _heckle_ or wooden comb; _binnings_ are halters for cattle made of _sprit_ or rushes. 8 _Spurtle_ = spoon; _whins_ = gorse. 9 _Parallels. 10 _--This is clearly a variant of _Johnny-cake_ = journey-cake, No. xxviii., where see Notes. 11 _Remarks. 12 _--But here the interest is with the pursuers rather than with the pursued. 13 The subtle characterisation of the various occupations reaches a high level of artistic merit. checked by a teacher 14 Mr. Barrie himself could scarcely have succeeded better in a very difficult task. ← previous LVI. Tattercoatsnext → LVIII. Johnny Gloke↑ back to More English Fairy Tales This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/48/