XXV. Tom Thumb. XXV. Tom Thumb. of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 8 sentences and 97 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself.
1 _Source_.--From the chap-book contained in Halliwell, p. 199, and Mr. Hartland's _English Folk and Fairy Tales_. 2 I have omitted much of the second part. 3 _Parallels_.--Halliwell has also a version entirely in verse. 4 “Tom Thumb” is “Le petit Poucet” of the French, “Daumling” of the Germans, and similar diminutive heroes elsewhere (_cf. 5 _ Deulin, _Contes de ma Mère l'Oye_, 326), but of his adventures only that in the cow's stomach (_cf. 6 _ Cosquin, ii. 7
is common with his French and German cousins.
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