XXVI. Mr. Fox. XXVI. Mr. Fox. of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 6 sentences and 114 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself.
1 _Source_.--Contributed by Blakeway to Malone's Variorum Shakespeare, to illustrate Benedick's remark in _Much Ado about Nothing_ (I. i. 146): “Like the old tale, my Lord, 'It is not so, nor 'twas not so, but, indeed, God forbid it should be so;'” which clearly refers to the tale of Mr. Fox. 2 “The Forbidden Chamber” has been studied by Mr. Hartland, _Folk-Lore Journal_, iii. 3 193, _seq. 4 _ 5 _Parallels_.--Halliwell, p. 166, gives a similar tale of “An Oxford Student,” whose sweetheart saw him digging her grave. 6 “Mr. Fox” is clearly a variant of the theme of “The Robber Bridegroom” (Grimm, No. 40, Mrs. Hunt's translation, i. 389, 395; and Cosquin, i. 180-1). ← previous XXV. Tom Thumb.next → XXVII. Lazy Jack.↑ back to English Fairy Tales This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/76/