Jack and Jill

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"Jack and Jill" is a traditional English nursery rhyme and folk tale about two children who go up a hill and have an accident fetching a pail of water.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf English nursery rhyme
folk tale
nursery rhyme
adaptedAs illustrated nursery rhyme
picture book
countryOfOrigin England
culturalForm oral tradition
featuresEvent Jack falls down and breaks his crown
Jill comes tumbling after
firstLine Jack and Jill self-linksurface differs
surface form: Jack and Jill went up the hill
genre children's song
folk tale
nursery rhyme
hasCategory English folk literature
traditional nursery rhymes
hasCharacter Jack
Jillian
surface form: Jill
hasMeter simple accentual meter
hasMotif falling down
fetching water
hasObject pail of water
hasSetting hill
hasTheme childhood mishap
consequence of accidents
isTaughtIn English-speaking countries
language English
plotSummary Jack and Jill self-linksurface differs
surface form: Jack and Jill go up a hill to fetch a pail of water and have an accident on the way down.
rhymeScheme simple rhyming couplets
targetAudience children
usedAs early childhood learning material
nursery rhyme for young children

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Jack and Jill firstLine Jack and Jill self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Jack and Jill went up the hill
Jack and Jill plotSummary Jack and Jill self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Jack and Jill go up a hill to fetch a pail of water and have an accident on the way down.