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title: Tom Tit Tot — English Fairy Tales · full text with trees · page 2
description: Tom Tit Tot, «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: Once upon a time there was a woman, and she baked five pies.
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# Tom Tit Tot · page 2

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- [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/5/101/) — Well, what should there be but the funniest little black thing you ever set eyes on.
- [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/5/102/) — And what was that doing, but that had a little spinning-wheel, and that was spinning wonderful fast, and twirling that's tail.
- [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/5/103/) — And as that span that sang:
- [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/5/104/) — “Nimmy nimmy not My name's Tom Tit Tot.”
- [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/5/105/) — Well, when the girl heard this, she felt as if she could have jumped out of her skin for joy, but she didn't say a word.
- [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/5/106/) — Next day that there little thing looked so maliceful when he came for the flax.
- [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/5/107/) — And when night came, she heard that knocking against the window panes.
- [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/5/108/) — She oped the window, and that come right in on the ledge.
- [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/5/109/) — That was grinning from ear to ear, and Oo! that's tail was twirling round so fast.
- [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/5/110/) — “What's my name?” that says, as that gave her the skeins.
- [111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/5/111/) — “Is that Solomon?” she says, pretending to be afeard.
- [112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/5/112/) — “Noo, t'ain't,” that says, and that came further into the room.
- [113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/5/113/) — “Well, is that Zebedee?” says she again.
- [114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/5/114/) — “Noo, t'ain't,” says the impet.
- [115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/5/115/) — And then that laughed and twirled that's tail till you couldn't hardly see it.
- [116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/5/116/) — “Take time, woman,” that says; “next guess, and you're mine.”
- [117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/5/117/) — And that stretched out that's black hands at her.
- [118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/5/118/) — Well, she backed a step or two, and she looked at it, and then she laughed out, and says she, pointing her finger at it:

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