--- title: More English Fairy Tales, part 2 — More English Fairy Tales · full text with trees description: More English Fairy Tales, part 2, «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: So she was taken away to be hanged by the neck till she was dead because she'd lost her ball. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [More English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/) / More English Fairy Tales, part 2 # More English Fairy Tales, part 2 More English Fairy Tales, part 2 of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 110 sentences and 2608 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/page/2/) - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/1/) — So she was taken away to be hanged by the neck till she was dead because she'd lost her ball. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/2/) — But she had a sweetheart, and he said he would go and get the ball. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/3/) — So he went to the park-gate, but 't was shut; so he climbed the hedge, and when he got to the top of the hedge, an old woman rose up out of the dyke before him, and said, if he wanted to get the ball, he must sleep three nights in the house. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/4/) — He said he would. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/5/) — Then he went into the house, and looked for the ball, but could not find it. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/6/) — Night came on and he heard bogles move in the courtyard; so he looked out o' the window, and the yard was full of them. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/7/) — Presently he heard steps coming upstairs. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/8/) — He hid behind the door, and was as still as a mouse. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/9/) — Then in came a big giant five times as tall as he, and the giant looked round but did not see the lad, so he went to the window and bowed to look out; and as he bowed on his elbows to see the bogles in the yard, the lad stepped behind him, and with one blow of his sword he cut him in twain, so that the top part of him fell in the yard, and the bottom part stood looking out of the window. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/10/) — There was a great cry from the bogles when they saw half the giant come tumbling down to them, and they called out, "There comes half our master, give us the other half." - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/11/) — So the lad said, "It's no use of thee, thou pair of legs, standing alone at the window, as thou hast no eye to see with, so go join thy brother;" and he cast the lower part of the giant after the top part. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/12/) — Now when the bogles had gotten all the giant they were quiet. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/13/) — Next night the lad was at the house again, and now a second giant came in at the door, and as he came in the lad cut him in twain, but the legs walked on to the chimney and went up them. " - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/14/) — Go, get thee after thy legs," said the lad to the head, and he cast the head up the chimney too. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/15/) — The third night the lad got into bed, and he heard the bogles striving under the bed, and they had the ball there, and they were casting it to and fro. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/16/) — Now one of them has his leg thrust out from under the bed, so the lad brings his sword down and cuts it off. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/17/) — Then another thrusts his arm out at other side of the bed, and the lad cuts that off. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/18/) — So at last he had maimed them all, and they all went crying and wailing off, and forgot the ball, but he took it from under the bed, and went to seek his true-love. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/19/) — Now the lass was taken to York to be hanged; she was brought out on the scaffold, and the hangman said, "Now, lass, thou must hang by the neck till thou be'st dead." - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/20/) — But she cried out: - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/21/) — "Stop, stop, I think I see my mother coming! - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/22/) — O mother, hast brought my golden ball And come to set me free?" - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/23/) — "I've neither brought thy golden ball Nor come to set thee free, But I have come to see thee hung Upon this gallows-tree." - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/24/) — Then the hangman said, "Now, lass, say thy prayers for thou must die." - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/25/) — But she said: - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/26/) — "Stop, stop, I think I see my father coming! - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/27/) — O father, hast brought my golden ball And come to set me free?" - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/28/) — "I've neither brought thy golden ball Nor come to set thee free, But I have come to see thee hung Upon this gallows-tree." - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/29/) — Then the hangman said, "Hast thee done thy prayers? - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/30/) — Now, lass, put thy head into the noose." - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/31/) — But she answered, "Stop, stop, I think I see my brother coming!" - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/32/) — And again she sang, and then she thought she saw her sister coming, then her uncle, then her aunt, then her cousin; but after this the hangman said, "I will stop no longer, thou 'rt making game of me. - [33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/33/) — Thou must be hung at once." - [34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/34/) — But now she saw her sweetheart coming through the crowd, and he held over his head in the air her own golden ball; so she said: - [35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/35/) — "Stop, stop, I see my sweetheart coming! - [36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/36/) — Sweetheart, hast brought my golden ball And come to set me free?" - [37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/37/) — "Aye, I have brought thy golden ball And come to set thee free, I have not come to see thee hung Upon this gallows-tree." - [38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/38/) — And he took her home, and they lived happy ever after. - [39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/39/) — My Own Self - [40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/40/) — In a tiny house in the North Countrie, far away from any town or village, there lived not long ago, a poor widow all alone with her little son, a six-year-old boy. - [41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/41/) — The house-door opened straight on to the hill-side and all round about were moorlands and huge stones, and swampy hollows; never a house nor a sign of life wherever you might look, for their nearest neighbours were the "ferlies" in the glen below, and the "will-o'-the-wisps" in the long grass along the pathside. - [42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/42/) — And many a tale she could tell of the "good folk" calling to each other in the oak-trees, and the twinkling lights hopping on to the very window sill, on dark nights; but in spite of the loneliness, she lived on from year to year in the little house, perhaps because she was never asked to pay any rent for it. - [43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/43/) — But she did not care to sit up late, when the fire burnt low, and no one knew what might be about; so, when they had had their supper she would make up a good fire and go off to bed, so that if anything terrible \_did\_ happen, she could always hide her head under the bed-clothes. - [44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/44/) — This, however, was far too early to please her little son; so when she called him to bed, he would go on playing beside the fire, as if he did not hear her. - [45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/45/) — He had always been bad to do with since the day he was born, and his mother did not often care to cross him; indeed, the more she tried to make him obey her, the less heed he paid to anything she said, so it usually ended by his taking his own way. - [46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/46/) — But one night, just at the fore-end of winter, the widow could not make up her mind to go off to bed, and leave him playing by the fireside; for the wind was tugging at the door, and rattling the window-panes, and well she knew that on such a night, fairies and such like were bound to be out and about, and bent on mischief. - [47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/47/) — So she tried to coax the boy into going at once to bed: - [48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/48/) — "The safest bed to bide in, such a night as this!" she said: but no, he wouldn't. - [49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/49/) — Then she threatened to "give him the stick," but it was no use. - [50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/50/) — The more she begged and scolded, the more he shook his head; and when at last she lost patience and cried that the fairies would surely come and fetch him away, he only laughed and said he wished they \_would\_, for he would like one to play with. - [51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/51/) — At that his mother burst into tears, and went off to bed in despair, certain that after such words something dreadful would happen; while her naughty little son sat on his stool by the fire, not at all put out by her crying. - [52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/52/) — But he had not long been sitting there alone, when he heard a fluttering sound near him in the chimney and presently down by his side dropped the tiniest wee girl you could think of; she was not a span high, and had hair like spun silver, eyes as green as grass, and cheeks red as June roses. - [53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/53/) — The little boy looked at her with surprise. - [54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/54/) — "Oh!" said he; "what do they call ye?" - [55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/55/) — "My own self," she said in a shrill but sweet little voice, and she looked at him too. " - [56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/56/) — And what do they call ye?" - [57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/57/) — "Just my own self too!" he answered cautiously; and with that they began to play together. - [58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/58/) — She certainly showed him some fine games. - [59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/59/) — She made animals out of the ashes that looked and moved like life; and trees with green leaves waving over tiny houses, with men and women an inch high in them, who, when she breathed on them, fell to walking and talking quite properly. - [60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/60/) — But the fire was getting low, and the light dim, and presently the little boy stirred the coals with a stick to make them blaze; when out jumped a red-hot cinder, and where should it fall, but on the fairy child's tiny foot. - [61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/61/) — Thereupon she set up such a squeal, that the boy dropped the stick, and clapped his hands to his ears but it grew to so shrill a screech, that it was like all the wind in the world whistling through one tiny keyhole. - [62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/62/) — There was a sound in the chimney again, but this time the little boy did not wait to see what it was, but bolted off to bed, where he hid under the blankets and listened in fear and trembling to what went on. - [63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/63/) — A voice came from the chimney speaking sharply: - [64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/64/) — "Who's there, and what's wrong?" it said. - [65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/65/) — "It's my own self," sobbed the fairy-child; "and my foot's burnt sore. - [66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/66/) — O-o-h!" - [67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/67/) — "Who did it?" said the voice angrily; this time it sounded nearer, and the boy, peeping from under the clothes, could see a white face looking out from the chimney-opening. - [68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/68/) — "Just my own self too!" said the fairy-child again. - [69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/69/) — "Then if ye did it your own self," cried the elf-mother shrilly, "what's the use o' making all this fash about it?"--and with that she stretched out a long thin arm, and caught the creature by its ear, and, shaking it roughly, pulled it after her, out of sight up the chimney. - [70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/70/) — The little boy lay awake a long time, listening, in case the fairy-mother should come back after all; and next evening after supper, his mother was surprised to find that he was willing to go to bed whenever she liked. - [71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/71/) — "He's taking a turn for the better at last!" she said to herself; but he was thinking just then that, when next a fairy came to play with him, he might not get off quite so easily as he had done this time. - [72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/72/) — Black Bull of Norroway - [73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/73/) — In Norroway, long time ago, there lived a certain lady, and she had three daughters: The oldest of them said to her mother: "Mother, bake me a bannock, and roast me a collop, for I'm going away to seek my fortune." - [74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/74/) — Her mother did so; and the daughter went away to an old witch washerwife and told her purpose. - [75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/75/) — The old wife bade her stay that day, and look out of her back-door, and see what she could see. - [76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/76/) — She saw nought the first day. - [77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/77/) — The second day she did the same, and saw nought. - [78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/78/) — On the third day she looked again, and saw a coach-and-six coming along the road. - [79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/79/) — She ran in and told the old wife what she saw. " - [80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/80/) — Well," quoth the old woman, "yon's for you." - [81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/81/) — So they took her into the coach and galloped off. - [82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/82/) — The second daughter next says to her mother: "Mother, bake me a bannock, and roast me a collop, for I'm going away to seek my fortune." - [83](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/83/) — Her mother did so; and away she went to the old wife, as her sister had done. - [84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/84/) — On the third day she looked out of the back-door, and saw a coach-and-four coming along the road. " - [85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/85/) — Well," quoth the old woman, "yon's for you." - [86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/86/) — So they took her in, and off they set. - [87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/87/) — The third daughter says to her mother: "Mother, bake me a bannock, and roast me a collop, for I'm going away to seek my fortune." - [88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/88/) — Her mother did so; and away she went to the old witch. - [89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/89/) — She bade her look out of her back-door, and see what she could see She did so; and when she came back, said she saw nought. - [90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/90/) — The second day she did the same, and saw nought. - [91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/91/) — The third day she looked again, and on coming back said to the old wife she saw nought but a great Black Bull coming crooning along the road. " - [92](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/92/) — Well," quoth the old witch, "yon's for you." - [93](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/93/) — On hearing this she was next to distracted with grief and terror; but she was lifted up and set on his back, and away they went. - [94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/94/) — Aye they travelled, and on they travelled, till the lady grew faint with hunger. " - [95](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/95/) — Eat out of my right ear," says the Black Bull, "and drink out of my left ear, and set by your leaving." - [96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/96/) — So she did as he said, and was wonderfully refreshed. - [97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/97/) — And long they rode, and hard they rode, till they came in sight of a very big and bonny castle. " - [98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/98/) — Yonder we must be this night," quoth the Bull; "for my elder brother lives yonder;" and presently they were at the place. - [99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/99/) — They lifted her off his back, and took her in, and sent him away to a park for the night. - [100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/100/) — In the morning, when they brought the Bull home, they took the lady into a fine shining parlour, and gave her a beautiful apple, telling her not to break it till she was in the greatest strait ever mortal was in the world, and that would bring her out of it. **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/page/2/) - ← previous: [More English Fairy Tales, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/15/) - next →: [More English Fairy Tales, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/17/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/)