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# XXIV. Why the Fish Laughed.

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XXIV. Why the Fish Laughed. of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 24 sentences and 153 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/pg7128/55/1/) — \_Source.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/55/2/) — \_--Knowles, \_Folk-Tales of Kashmir\_, pp.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/55/3/) — 484-90.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/55/4/) — \_Parallels.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/55/5/) — \_--The latter part is the formula of the Clever Lass who guesses riddles.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/55/6/) — She has been bibliographised by Prof.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/55/7/) — Child, \_Eng. and Scotch Ballads\_, i. 485; see also Benfey, \_Kl.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/55/8/) — Schr.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/55/9/) — \_ ii.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/55/10/) — 156 \_seq.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/55/11/) — \_ The sex test at the end is different from any of those enumerated by Prof.
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/55/12/) — Köhler on Gonzenbach, \_Sezil.
- [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/55/13/) — Mähr.
- [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/55/14/) — \_ ii.
- [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/55/15/) — 216.
- [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/55/16/) — \_Remarks.
- [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/55/17/) — \_--Here we have a further example of a whole formula, or series of incidents, common to most European collections, found in India, and in a quarter, too, where European influence is little likely to penetrate.
- [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/55/18/) — Prof.
- [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/55/19/) — Benfey, in an elaborate dissertation ("Die Kluge Dirne," in \_Ausland\_, 1859, Nos.
- [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/55/20/) — 20-25, now reprinted in \_Kl.
- [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/55/21/) — Schr.
- [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/55/22/) — \_ ii.
- [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/55/23/) — 156 \_seq.
- [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/55/24/) — \_), has shown the wide spread of the theme both in early Indian literature (though probably there derived from the folk) and in modern European folk literature.

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