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# LVI. Tattercoats

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LVI. Tattercoats of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 11 sentences and 194 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/pg14241/47/1/) — \_Source.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/47/2/) — \_--Told to Mrs. Balfour by a little girl named Sally Brown, when she lived in the Cars in Lincolnshire.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/47/3/) — Sally had got it from her mother, who worked for Mrs. Balfour.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/47/4/) — It was originally told in dialect, which Mrs. Balfour has omitted.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/47/5/) — \_Parallels.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/47/6/) — \_--Miss Cox has included "Tattercoats" in her exhaustive collection of parallels of \_Cinderella\_ (Folk-Lore Society Publications, 1892), No. 274 from the MS. which I had lent her.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/47/7/) — Miss Cox rightly classes it as "Indeterminate," and it has only the \_Menial Heroine\_ and \_Happy Marriage\_ episodes in common with stories of the Cinderella type.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/47/8/) — \_Remarks.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/47/9/) — \_--\_Tattercoats\_ is of interest chiefly as being without any "fairy" or supernatural elements, unless the magic pipe can be so considered; it certainly gives the tale a fairy-like element.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/47/10/) — It is practically a prose variant of \_King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid\_, and is thus an instance of the folk-novel pure and simple, without any admixture of those unnatural incidents which transform the folk-novel into the serious folk-tale as we are accustomed to have it.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/47/11/) — Which is the prior, folk-novel or tale, it would be hard to say.

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