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# LXXXIV. Stupid's Cries

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LXXXIV. Stupid's Cries of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 8 sentences and 50 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/pg14241/77/1/) — \_Source.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/77/2/) — \_--\_Folk-Lore Record\_, iii., 152-5, by the veteran Prof.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/77/3/) — Stephens.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/77/4/) — I have changed "dog and bitch" of original to "dog and cat," and euphemised the liver and lights.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/77/5/) — \_Parallels.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/77/6/) — \_--Prof.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/77/7/) — Stephens gives parallels from Denmark.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/77/8/) — Germany (the Grimms' \_Up Riesensohn\_) and Ireland (Kennedy, \_Fireside Stories\_, p. 30).

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