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# IV. Old Woman and Pig.

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IV. Old Woman and Pig. of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 13 sentences and 101 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/pg7439/54/1/) — \_Source\_.--Halliwell's \_Nursery Rhymes and Tales\_, 114.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/54/2/) — \_Parallels\_.--\_Cf.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/54/3/) — \_ Miss Burne, \_Shropshire Folk-Lore\_, 529; also No. xxxiv.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/54/4/) — \_infra\_ (“Cat and Mouse”).
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/54/5/) — It occurs also in Scotch, with the title “The Wife and her Bush of Berries,” Chambers's \_Pop.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/54/6/) — Rhymes\_, p. 57.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/54/7/) — Newell, \_Games and Songs of American Children\_, gives a game named “Club-fist” (No. 75), founded on this, and in his notes refers to German, Danish, and Spanish variants.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/54/8/) — (\_Cf.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/54/9/) — \_ Cosquin, ii.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/54/10/) — 36 \_seq.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/54/11/) — \_)
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/54/12/) — \_Remarks\_.--One of the class of Accumulative stories, which are well represented in England.
- [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/54/13/) — (\_Cf. infra\_, Nos. xvi., xx., xxxiv.)

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