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title: III. the Rose Tree. — English Fairy Tales · full text with trees
description: III. the Rose Tree., «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: _Source_.--From the first edition of Henderson's _Folk-Lore of Northern Counties_, p. 314, to which it was communicated by the Rev. S. Baring-Gould.
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# III. the Rose Tree.

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III. the Rose Tree. of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 9 sentences and 137 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/pg7439/53/1/) — \_Source\_.--From the first edition of Henderson's \_Folk-Lore of Northern Counties\_, p. 314, to which it was communicated by the Rev. S. Baring-Gould.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/53/2/) — \_Parallels\_.--This is better known under the title, “Orange and Lemon,” and with the refrain:
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/53/3/) — “My mother killed me, My father picked my bones, My little sister buried me, Under the marble stones.”
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/53/4/) — I heard this in Australia.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/53/5/) — Mr. Jones Gives part of it in \_Folk Tales of the Magyars\_, 418-20, and another version occurs in 4 \_Notes and Queries\_, vi.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/53/6/) — 496.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/53/7/) — Mr. I. Gollancz informs me he remembers a version entitled “Pepper, Salt, and Mustard,” with the refrain just given.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/53/8/) — Abroad it is Grimm's “Juniper Tree” (No. 47), where see further parallels.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/53/9/) — The German rhyme is sung by Margaret in the mad scene of Goethe's “Faust.”

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