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# V. How Jack Sought His Fortune.

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V. How Jack Sought His Fortune. of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 9 sentences and 82 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/pg7439/55/1/) — \_Source\_.--\_American Folk-Lore Journal\_ I, 227-8.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/55/2/) — I have eliminated a malodorous and un-English skunk.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/55/3/) — \_Parallels\_.--Two other versions are given in the \_Journal l.c.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/55/4/) — \_ One of these, however, was probably derived from Grimm's “Town Musicians of Bremen” (No. 27).
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/55/5/) — That the others came from across the Atlantic is shown by the fact that it occurs in Ireland (Kennedy, \_Fictions\_, pp.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/55/6/) — 5-10) and Scotland (Campbell, No. 11).
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/55/7/) — For other variants, see R. Köhler in Gonzenbach, \_Sicil.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/55/8/) — Märchen\_, ii.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/55/9/) — 245.

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