II. the Three Sillies. II. the Three Sillies. of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 10 sentences and 124 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself.
1 _Source_.--From _Folk-Lore Journal_, ii. 2 40-3; to which it was communicated by Miss C. Burne. 3 _Parallels_.--Prof. 4 Stephens gave a variant from his own memory in _Folk-Lore Record_, iii. 5 155, as told in Essex at the beginning of the century. 6 Mr. Toulmin Smith gave another version in _The Constitutional_, July 1, 1853, which was translated by his daughter, and contributed to _Mélusine_, t. ii. 7 An Oxfordshire version was given in _Notes and Queries_, April 17, 1852. 8 It occurs also in Ireland, Kennedy, _Fireside Stories_, p. 9. 9 It is Grimm's _Kluge Else_, No. 34, and is spread through the world. 10 Mr. Clouston devotes the seventh chapter of his _Book of Noodles_ to the Quest of the Three Noodles. ← previous I. Tom Tit Tot.next → III. the Rose Tree.↑ back to English Fairy Tales This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/52/