III. the Rose Tree. III. the Rose Tree. of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 9 sentences and 137 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself.
1 _Source_.--From the first edition of Henderson's _Folk-Lore of Northern Counties_, p. 314, to which it was communicated by the Rev. S. Baring-Gould. 2 _Parallels_.--This is better known under the title, “Orange and Lemon,” and with the refrain: 3 “My mother killed me, My father picked my bones, My little sister buried me, Under the marble stones.” 4 I heard this in Australia. 5 Mr. Jones Gives part of it in _Folk Tales of the Magyars_, 418-20, and another version occurs in 4 _Notes and Queries_, vi. 6
7 Mr. I. Gollancz informs me he remembers a version entitled “Pepper, Salt, and Mustard,” with the refrain just given. 8 Abroad it is Grimm's “Juniper Tree” (No. 47), where see further parallels. 9 The German rhyme is sung by Margaret in the mad scene of Goethe's “Faust.” ← previous II. the Three Sillies.next → IV. Old Woman and Pig.↑ back to English Fairy Tales This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/53/