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# XLIX. Yallery Brown

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XLIX. Yallery Brown of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 10 sentences and 141 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/pg14241/40/1/) — \_Source.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/40/2/) — \_--Mrs. Balfour's "Legends of the Lincolnshire Fens," in \_Folk-Lore\_, ii.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/40/3/) — It was told to Mrs. Balfour by a labourer, who professed to be the hero of the story, and related it in the first person.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/40/4/) — I have given him a name, and changed the narration into the oblique narration, and toned down the dialect.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/40/5/) — \_Parallels.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/40/6/) — \_--"Tiddy Mun," the hero of another of Mrs. Balfour's legends (\_l.c.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/40/7/) — \_, p. 151) was "none bigger 'n a three years old bairn," and had no proper name.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/40/8/) — \_Remarks.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/40/9/) — \_--One might almost suspect Mrs. Balfour of being the victim of a piece of invention on the part of her autobiographical informant.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/40/10/) — But the scrap of verse, especially in its original dialect, has such a folkish ring that it is probable he was only adapting a local legend to his own circumstances.

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