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# XXV. Tom Thumb.

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XXV. Tom Thumb. of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 8 sentences and 97 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/pg7439/75/1/) — \_Source\_.--From the chap-book contained in Halliwell, p. 199, and Mr. Hartland's \_English Folk and Fairy Tales\_.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/75/2/) — I have omitted much of the second part.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/75/3/) — \_Parallels\_.--Halliwell has also a version entirely in verse.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/75/4/) — “Tom Thumb” is “Le petit Poucet” of the French, “Daumling” of the Germans, and similar diminutive heroes elsewhere (\_cf.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/75/5/) — \_ Deulin, \_Contes de ma Mère l'Oye\_, 326), but of his adventures only that in the cow's stomach (\_cf.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/75/6/) — \_ Cosquin, ii.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/75/7/) — 190) is common with his French and German cousins.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/75/8/) — M. Gaston Paris has a monograph on “Tom Thumb.”

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