--- title: Cap O' Rushes — English Fairy Tales · full text with trees · page 2 description: Cap O' Rushes, «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: Well, there was once a very rich gentleman, and he'd three daughters, and he thought he'd see how fond they were of him. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/15/page/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/) / Cap O' Rushes # Cap O' Rushes · page 2 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/15/) **2** - [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/15/101/) — And so they were happy ever after. - [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/15/102/) — TEENY-TINY - [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/15/103/) — Once upon a time there was a teeny-tiny woman lived in a teeny-tiny house in a teeny-tiny village. - [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/15/104/) — Now, one day this teeny-tiny woman put on her teeny-tiny bonnet, and went out of her teeny-tiny house to take a teeny-tiny walk. - [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/15/105/) — And when this teeny-tiny woman had gone a teeny-tiny way she came to a teeny-tiny gate; so the teeny-tiny woman opened the teeny-tiny gate, and went into a teeny-tiny churchyard. - [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/15/106/) — And when this teeny-tiny woman had got into the teeny-tiny churchyard, she saw a teeny-tiny bone on a teeny-tiny grave, and the teeny-tiny woman said to her teeny-tiny self, “This teeny-tiny bone will make me some teeny-tiny soup for my teeny-tiny supper.” - [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/15/107/) — So the teeny-tiny woman put the teeny-tiny bone into her teeny-tiny pocket, and went home to her teeny-tiny house. - [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/15/108/) — Now when the teeny-tiny woman got home to her teeny-tiny house she was a teeny-tiny bit tired; so she went up her teeny-tiny stairs to her teeny-tiny bed, and put the teeny-tiny bone into a teeny-tiny cupboard. - [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/15/109/) — And when this teeny-tiny woman had been to sleep a teeny-tiny time, she was awakened by a teeny-tiny voice from the teeny-tiny cupboard, which said: - [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/15/110/) — “Give me my bone!” - [111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/15/111/) — And this teeny-tiny woman was a teeny-tiny frightened, so she hid her teeny-tiny head under the teeny-tiny clothes and went to sleep again. - [112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/15/112/) — And when she had been to sleep again a teeny-tiny time, the teeny-tiny voice again cried out from the teeny-tiny cupboard a teeny-tiny louder, “Give me my bone!” - [113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/15/113/) — This made the teeny-tiny woman a teeny-tiny more frightened, so she hid her teeny-tiny head a teeny-tiny further under the teeny-tiny clothes. - [114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/15/114/) — And when the teeny-tiny woman had been to sleep again a teeny-tiny time, the teeny-tiny voice from the teeny-tiny cupboard said again a teeny-tiny louder, - [115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/15/115/) — “Give me my bone!” - [116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/15/116/) — And this teeny-tiny woman was a teeny-tiny bit more frightened, but she put her teeny-tiny head out of the teeny-tiny clothes, and said in her loudest teeny-tiny voice, “TAKE IT!” [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/15/) **2** - ← previous: [Mouse and Mouser](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/14/) - next →: [Jack and the Beanstalk](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/16/) - ↑ back to [English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/)