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# XI. Gold Tree and Silver Tree.

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XI. Gold Tree and Silver Tree. of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 13 sentences and 185 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/pg7885/45/1/) — \_Source\_.--\_Celtic Magazine\_, xiii.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/45/2/) — 213-8, Gaelic and English from Mr. Kenneth Macleod.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/45/3/) — \_Parallels\_.--Mr. Macleod heard another version in which "Gold Tree" (anonymous in this variant) is bewitched to kill her father's horse, dog, and cock.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/45/4/) — Abroad it is the Grimm's \_Schneewittchen\_ (No. 53), for the Continental variants of which see Koehler on Gonzenbach, \_Sicil.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/45/5/) — Maehrchen\_, Nos.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/45/6/) — 2-4, Grimm's notes on 53, and Crane, \_Ital.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/45/7/) — Pop.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/45/8/) — Tales\_, 331.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/45/9/) — No other version is known in the British Isles.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/45/10/) — \_Remarks\_.--It is unlikely, I should say impossible, that this tale, with the incident of the dormant heroine, should have arisen independently in the Highlands; it is most likely an importation from abroad.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/45/11/) — Yet in it occurs a most "primitive" incident, the bigamous household of the hero; this is glossed over in Mr. Macleod's other variant.
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/45/12/) — On the "survival" method of investigation this would possibly be used as evidence for polygamy in the Highlands.
- [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/45/13/) — Yet if, as is probable, the story came from abroad, this trait may have come with it, and only implies polygamy in the original home of the tale.

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