Little Jack Horner

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Little Jack Horner is a traditional English nursery rhyme character best known for pulling a plum out of a Christmas pie with his thumb.

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"Little Jack Horner" nursery rhyme 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf child character
fictional character
nursery rhyme character
activity eating pie
sitting in a corner
appearsIn Little Jack Horner self-linksurface differs
surface form: "Little Jack Horner" nursery rhyme
associatedWith Christmas pie
plum
thumb
audience children
bodyPartUsed thumb
collectedIn Mother Goose collections
country England
culturalImpact proverbial expression for smug self-satisfaction
culturalOrigin English folklore
diminutiveForm Little Jack Horner self-link
exclamation "What a good boy am I!"
fictionalStatus legendary
food Christmas pie
plum
genre nursery rhyme
hasName Jack Horner
language English
line "And said, 'What a good boy am I!'"
"Eating a Christmas pie"
"He put in his thumb, and pulled out a plum"
"Little Jack Horner sat in a corner"
literaryForm verse
medium oral tradition
notableFor pulling a plum out of a Christmas pie with his thumb
period early modern England
rhymeType traditional nursery rhyme
theme child behavior
self-satisfaction
usedAs children's song
teaching rhyme

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Little Jack Horner appearsIn Little Jack Horner self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: "Little Jack Horner" nursery rhyme
Little Jack Horner diminutiveForm Little Jack Horner self-link
Jack featuredInWork Little Jack Horner