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# The Golden Arm

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The Golden Arm of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 17 sentences and 259 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/pg7439/27/1/) — Here was once a man who travelled the land all over in search of a wife.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/27/2/) — He saw young and old, rich and poor, pretty and plain, and could not meet with one to his mind.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/27/3/) — At last he found a woman, young, fair, and rich, who possessed a right arm of solid gold.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/27/4/) — He married her at once, and thought no man so fortunate as he was.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/27/5/) — They lived happily together, but, though he wished people to think otherwise, he was fonder of the golden arm than of all his wife's gifts besides.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/27/6/) — At last she died.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/27/7/) — The husband put on the blackest black, and pulled the longest face at the funeral; but for all that he got up in the middle of the night, dug up the body, and cut off the golden arm.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/27/8/) — He hurried home to hide his treasure, and thought no one would know.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/27/9/) — The following night he put the golden arm under his pillow, and was just falling asleep, when the ghost of his dead wife glided into the room.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/27/10/) — Stalking up to the bedside it drew the curtain, and looked at him reproachfully.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/27/11/) — Pretending not to be afraid, he spoke to the ghost, and said: “What hast thou done with thy cheeks so red?”
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/27/12/) — “All withered and wasted away,” replied the ghost, in a hollow tone.
- [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/27/13/) — “What hast thou done with thy red rosy lips?”
- [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/27/14/) — “All withered and wasted away.”
- [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/27/15/) — “What hast thou done with thy golden hair?”
- [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/27/16/) — “All withered and wasted away.”
- [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/27/17/) — “What hast thou done with thy \_Golden Arm\_?”

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