Table 1
Example output of the dataset.
| atu_id | tale_title | provenance | source | text |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 910B | The Highlander Takes… | Scotland | Cuthbert Bede | In one of the glens of… |
| 910B | The Prince Who Acquired | India | Cecil Henry Bompas | There was once a raja … |
| 910B | The Three Admonitions | Italy | Thomas Frederick Crane | A man once left his co… |
| 910B | The Three Advices | Ireland | T. Crofton Croker | The stories current am… |
| 910B | The Three Advices Which… | Ireland | Patrick Kennedy | The name of the young … |
| 1430 | Buttermilk Jack | Thomas Hughes | Oh mother, my buttermilk |
Table 2
Summary statistics of the AFT dataset.
| MEASURE | VALUE |
|---|---|
| Number of tales | 1518 |
| Number of tale types | 182 |
| Mean tokens per tale | 979.1 |
| Median tokens per tale | 642 |
| Minimum tokens per tale | 10 |
| Maximum tokens per tale | 12,406 |
| Mean sentences per tale | 45.7 |
| Median sentences per tale | 31 |
Figure 1
Distribution of tale lengths.
Table 3
Ten tale types with the largest number of representative tales.
| ATU ID | TALE NAME | N OF TALES |
|---|---|---|
| 275 | The Race between Two Animals (previously The Race of the Fox and the Crayfish) | 31 |
| 777 | The Wandering Jew | 30 |
| 1645 | The Treasure at Home | 26 |
| 510B | Peau d’Asne (previously The Dress of Gold, of Silver, and of Stars [Cap o Rushes]) | 26 |
| 500 | The Name of the Supernatural Helper | 23 |
| 510A | Cinderella | 21 |
| 700 | Thumbling (previously Tom Thumb) | 21 |
| 155 | The Ungrateful Snake Returned to Captivity | 20 |
| 545B | Puss in Boots | 20 |
| 980 | The Ungrateful Son (previously Ungrateful Son Reproved by Naive Actions of Own Son) | 20 |