What type of story does the nun's priest tell? an anecdote a parable a fable a biblical tale?

The type of story that the Nun's Priest tells is a fable. As you may already know, fables are stories where the main protagonists are animals who have human qualities, and it usually ends with some kind of a moral. Here, the protagonists are a rooster, chickens, and a fox who wants to trick the rooster and eat him, however, it gets bamboozled itself.