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# LXXXVII. Princess of Canterbury

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LXXXVII. Princess of Canterbury of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 4 sentences and 72 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/pg14241/80/1/) — \_Source.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/80/2/) — \_--I have inserted into the old chap-book version of the \_Four Kings of Colchester, Canterbury\_, &c., an incident entitled by Halliwell "The Three Questions."
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/80/3/) — \_Parallels.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/80/4/) — \_--The "riddle bride wager" is a frequent incident of folk-tales (see my List of Incidents); the sleeping tabu of the latter part is not so common, though it occurs, \_e.g.\_, in the Grimms' \_Twelve Princesses\_, who wear out their shoes with dancing.

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