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# II. the Three Sillies.

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II. the Three Sillies. of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 10 sentences and 124 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/pg7439/52/1/) — \_Source\_.--From \_Folk-Lore Journal\_, ii.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/52/2/) — 40-3; to which it was communicated by Miss C. Burne.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/52/3/) — \_Parallels\_.--Prof.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/52/4/) — Stephens gave a variant from his own memory in \_Folk-Lore Record\_, iii.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/52/5/) — 155, as told in Essex at the beginning of the century.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/52/6/) — Mr. Toulmin Smith gave another version in \_The Constitutional\_, July 1, 1853, which was translated by his daughter, and contributed to \_Mélusine\_, t. ii.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/52/7/) — An Oxfordshire version was given in \_Notes and Queries\_, April 17, 1852.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/52/8/) — It occurs also in Ireland, Kennedy, \_Fireside Stories\_, p. 9.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/52/9/) — It is Grimm's \_Kluge Else\_, No. 34, and is spread through the world.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/52/10/) — Mr. Clouston devotes the seventh chapter of his \_Book of Noodles\_ to the Quest of the Three Noodles.

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