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description: XXII. Molly Whuppie., «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: _Source_.--_Folk-Lore Journal_, ii. p. 68, forwarded by Rev. Walter Gregor.
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# XXII. Molly Whuppie.

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XXII. Molly Whuppie. of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 10 sentences and 110 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/pg7439/72/1/) — \_Source\_.--\_Folk-Lore Journal\_, ii. p. 68, forwarded by Rev. Walter Gregor.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/72/2/) — I have modified the dialect and changed “Mally” into “Molly.”
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/72/3/) — \_Parallels\_.--The first part is clearly the theme of “Hop o' my Thumb,” which Mr. Lang has studied in his “Perrault,” pp. civ.-cxi.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/72/4/) — (\_cf.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/72/5/) — \_ Köhler, \_Occident\_, ii.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/72/6/) — 301.)
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/72/7/) — The change of night-dresses occurs in Greek myths.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/72/8/) — The latter part wanders off into “rob giant of three things,” a familiar incident in folk-tales (Cosquin, i. 46-7), and finally winds up with the “out of sack” trick, for which see Cosquin, i. 113; ii.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/72/9/) — 209; and Köhler on Campbell, in \_Occident and Orient\_, ii.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/72/10/) — 489-506.

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