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# XIV. Three Little Pigs.

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XIV. Three Little Pigs. of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 7 sentences and 108 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/pg7439/64/1/) — \_Source\_.--Halliwell, p. 16.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/64/2/) — \_Parallels\_.--The only known parallels are one from Venice, Bernoni, \_Trad.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/64/3/) — Pop.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/64/4/) — \_, punt. iii. p. 65, given in Crane, \_Italian Popular Tales\_, p. 267, “The Three Goslings;” and a negro tale in \_Lippincott's Magazine\_, December, 1877, p. 753 (“Tiny Pig”).
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/64/5/) — \_Remarks\_.--As little pigs do not have hair on their chinny chin-chins, I suspect that they were originally kids, who have.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/64/6/) — This would bring the tale close to the Grimms' “Wolf and Seven Little Kids,” (No. 5).
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/64/7/) — In Steel and Temple's “Lambikin” (\_Wide-awake Stories\_, p. 71), the Lambikin gets inside a Drumikin, and so nearly escapes the jackal.

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