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title: XXXVII. Kate Crackernuts. — English Fairy Tales · full text with trees
description: XXXVII. Kate Crackernuts., «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: _Source_.--Given by Mr. Lang in _Longman's Magazine_, vol. xiv. and reprinted in _Folk-Lore_, Sept. 1890.
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# XXXVII. Kate Crackernuts.

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XXXVII. Kate Crackernuts. of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 9 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/pg7439/87/1/) — \_Source\_.--Given by Mr. Lang in \_Longman's Magazine\_, vol. xiv. and reprinted in \_Folk-Lore\_, Sept. 1890.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/87/2/) — It is very corrupt, both girls being called Kate, and I have had largely to rewrite.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/87/3/) — \_Parallels\_.--There is a tale which is clearly a cousin if not a parent of this in \_Kennedy's Fictions\_, 54 \_seq.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/87/4/) — \_, containing the visit to the green hill (for which see “Childe Rowland”), a reference to nuts, and even the sesame rhyme.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/87/5/) — The prince is here a corpse who becomes revivified; the same story is in Campbell No. 13.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/87/6/) — The jealous stepmother is “universally human.”
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/87/7/) — (\_Cf.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/87/8/) — \_ Köhler on Gonzenbach, ii.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/87/9/) — 206.)

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