--- title: XIX. Jack the Giant-killer. — English Fairy Tales · full text with trees description: XIX. Jack the Giant-killer., «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: _Source_.--From two chap-books at the British Museum (London, 1805, Paisley, 1814). --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/69/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/) / XIX. Jack the Giant-killer. # XIX. Jack the Giant-killer. XIX. Jack the Giant-killer. of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 27 sentences and 345 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/69/1/) — \_Source\_.--From two chap-books at the British Museum (London, 1805, Paisley, 1814). - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/69/2/) — I have taken some hints from “Felix Summerly's” (Sir Henry Cole's) version, 1845. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/69/3/) — From the latter part, I have removed the incident of the Giant dragging the lady along by her hair. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/69/4/) — \_Parallels\_.--The chap-book of “Jack the Giant-Killer” is a curious jumble. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/69/5/) — The second part, as in most chap-books, is a weak and late invention of the enemy, and is not \_volkstümlich\_ at all. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/69/6/) — The first part is compounded of a comic and a serious theme. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/69/7/) — The first is that of the Valiant Tailor (Grimm, No. 20); to this belong the incidents of the fleabite blows (for variants of which see Köhler in \_Jahrb. rom. eng. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/69/8/) — Phil. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/69/9/) — \_, viii. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/69/10/) — 252), and that of the slit paunch (\_cf. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/69/11/) — \_ Cosquin, \_l.c. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/69/12/) — \_, ii. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/69/13/) — 51). - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/69/14/) — The Thankful Dead episode, where the hero is assisted by the soul of a person whom he has caused to be buried, is found as early as the \_Cento novelle antiche\_ and Straparola, xi. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/69/15/) — 2. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/69/16/) — It has been best studied by Köhler in \_Germania\_, iii. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/69/17/) — 199-209 (\_cf. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/69/18/) — \_ Cosquin, i. 214-5; ii. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/69/19/) — 14 and note; and Crane, \_Ital. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/69/20/) — Pop. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/69/21/) — Tales\_, 350, note 12). - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/69/22/) — It occurs also in the curious play of Peele's \_The Old Wives' Tale\_, in which one of the characters is the Ghost of Jack. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/69/23/) — Practically the same story as this part of Jack the Giant-Killer occurs in Kennedy, \_Fictions of the Irish Celts\_, p. 32, “Jack the Master and Jack the Servant;” and Kennedy adds (p. 38), “In some versions Jack the Servant is the spirit of the buried man.” - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/69/24/) — The “Fee-fi-fo-fum” formula is common to all English stories of giants and ogres; it also occurs in Peele's play and in \_King Lear\_ (see note on “Childe Rowland”). - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/69/25/) — Messrs. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/69/26/) — Jones and Kropf have some remarks on it in their “Magyar Tales,” pp. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/69/27/) — 340-1; so has Mr. Lang in his “Perrault,” p. lxiii., where he traces it to the Furies in Aeschylus' \_Eumenides\_. - ← previous: [XVIII. the Three Bears.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/68/) - next →: [XX. 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