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title: Whittington and His Cat — English Fairy Tales · full text with trees · page 2
description: Whittington and His Cat, «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: In the reign of the famous King Edward III. there was a little boy called Dick Whittington, whose father and mother died when he was very young.
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# Whittington and His Cat · page 2

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- [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/37/101/) — A day for the wedding was soon fixed; and they were attended to church by the Lord Mayor, the court of aldermen, the sheriffs, and a great number of the richest merchants in London, whom they afterwards treated with a very rich feast.
- [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/37/102/) — History tells us that Mr. Whittington and his lady liven in great splendour, and were very happy.
- [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/37/103/) — They had several children.
- [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/37/104/) — He was Sheriff of London, thrice Lord Mayor, and received the honour of knighthood by Henry V.
- [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/37/105/) — He entertained this king and his queen at dinner after his conquest of France so grandly, that the king said “Never had prince such a subject;” when Sir Richard heard this, he said: “Never had subject such a prince.”
- [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/37/106/) — The figure of Sir Richard Whittington with his cat in his arms, carved in stone, was to be seen till the year 1780 over the archway of the old prison of Newgate, which he built for criminals.

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