... for my thesis, using Halliday’s functional grammar as the theoretical framework 1.2 Aims of the study This thesis attempts to study the meaning and the structure of an English fairy tale as seen... and material process The meanings it realizes are midway between the material on the one hand and the mental on the other hand They are in part about action, but it is action that has to be experienced... place” are expressions that often appear at the beginning of an English fairy tale The setting and details about when events took place are nearly always vague Time and place in fairy tales are