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# VI. Mr. Vinegar.

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VI. Mr. Vinegar. of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 10 sentences and 103 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/pg7439/56/1/) — \_Source\_.--Halliwell, p. 149.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/56/2/) — \_Parallels\_.--This is the \_Hans im Glück\_ of Grimm (No. 83).
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/56/3/) — \_Cf.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/56/4/) — \_ too, “Lazy Jack,” \_infra\_, No. xxvii.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/56/5/) — Other variants are given by M. Cosquin, \_Contes pop. de Lorraine\_, i. 241.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/56/6/) — On surprising robbers, see preceding tale.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/56/7/) — \_Remarks\_.--In some of the variants the door is carried, because Mr. Vinegar, or his equivalent, has been told to “mind the door,” or he acts on the principle “he that is master of the door is master of the house.”
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/56/8/) — In other stories he makes the foolish exchanges to the entire satisfaction of his wife.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/56/9/) — (\_Cf.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/56/10/) — \_ Cosquin, i. 156-7.)

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