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title: XXVI. Mr. Fox. — English Fairy Tales · full text with trees
description: XXVI. Mr. Fox., «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: _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 ta
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# XXVI. Mr. Fox.

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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.

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- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/76/1/) — \_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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/76/2/) — “The Forbidden Chamber” has been studied by Mr. Hartland, \_Folk-Lore Journal\_, iii.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/76/3/) — 193, \_seq.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/76/4/) — \_
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/76/5/) — \_Parallels\_.--Halliwell, p. 166, gives a similar tale of “An Oxford Student,” whose sweetheart saw him digging her grave.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/76/6/) — “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).

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