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# XLVI. the Golden Ball

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XLVI. the Golden Ball of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 11 sentences and 121 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself.

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- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/37/1/) — \_Source.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/37/2/) — \_--Contributed to the first edition of Henderson's \_Folk-Lore of the Northern Counties\_, pp.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/37/3/) — 333-5, by Rev. S. Baring-Gould.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/37/4/) — \_Parallels.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/37/5/) — \_--Mr. Nutt gave a version in \_Folk-Lore Journal\_, vi., 144.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/37/6/) — The man in instalments occurs in "The Strange Visitor" (No. xxxii.).
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/37/7/) — The latter part of the tale has been turned into a game for English children, "Mary Brown," given in Miss Plunket's \_Merry Games\_, but not included in Newell, \_Games and Songs of American Children\_.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/37/8/) — \_Remarks.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/37/9/) — \_--This story is especially interesting as having given rise to a game.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/37/10/) — Capture and imprisonment are frequently the gruesome \_motif\_ of children's games, as in "Prisoner's base."
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/37/11/) — Here it has been used with romantic effect.

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