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# LXXI. the King of England

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LXXI. the King of England of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 11 sentences and 150 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/pg14241/62/1/) — \_Source.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/62/2/) — \_--Mr. F.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/62/3/) — Hindes Groome, \_In Gypsy Tents\_, told him by John Roberts, a Welsh gypsy, with a few slight changes and omission of passages insisting upon the gypsy origin of the three helpful brothers.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/62/4/) — \_Parallels.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/62/5/) — \_--The king and his three sons are familiar figures in European \_märchen\_.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/62/6/) — Slavonic parallels are enumerated by Leskien Brugman in their \_Lithauische Märchen\_, notes on No. 11, p. 542.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/62/7/) — The Sleeping Beauty is of course found in Perrault.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/62/8/) — \_Remarks.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/62/9/) — \_--The tale is scarcely a good example for Mr. Hindes Groome's contention (in \_Transactions Folk-Lore Congress\_) for the diffusion of all folk-tales by means of gypsies as \_colporteurs\_.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/62/10/) — This is merely a matter of evidence, and of evidence there is singularly little, though it is indeed curious that one of Campbell's best equipped informants should turn out to be a gypsy.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/62/11/) — Even this fact, however, is not too well substantiated.

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