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# X. Mouse and Mouser.

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X. Mouse and Mouser. of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 4 sentences and 65 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/pg7439/60/1/) — \_Source\_.--From memory by Mrs. E. Burne-Jones.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/60/2/) — \_Parallels\_.--A fragment is given in Halliwell, 43; Chambers's \_Popular Rhymes\_ has a Scotch version, “The Cattie sits in the Kilnring spinning” (p. 53).
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/60/3/) — The surprise at the end, similar to that in Perrault's “Red Riding Hood,” is a frequent device in English folk tales.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/60/4/) — (\_Cf. infra\_, Nos. xii., xxiv., xxix., xxxiii., xli.)

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