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.
Observed surface forms (2)
| Surface form | Occurrences |
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| Jack and Jill go up a hill to fetch a pail of water and have an accident on the way down. | 1 |
| Jack and Jill went up the hill | 1 |
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
English nursery rhyme
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folk tale ⓘ nursery rhyme ⓘ |
| adaptedAs |
illustrated nursery rhyme
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picture book ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | England ⓘ |
| culturalForm | oral tradition ⓘ |
| featuresEvent |
Jack falls down and breaks his crown
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Jill comes tumbling after ⓘ |
| firstLine |
Jack and Jill
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surface form:
Jack and Jill went up the hill
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| genre |
children's song
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folk tale ⓘ nursery rhyme ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
English folk literature
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traditional nursery rhymes ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Jack
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Jillian ⓘ
surface form:
Jill
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| hasMeter | simple accentual meter ⓘ |
| hasMotif |
falling down
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fetching water ⓘ |
| hasObject | pail of water ⓘ |
| hasSetting | hill ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
childhood mishap
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consequence of accidents ⓘ |
| isTaughtIn | English-speaking countries ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary |
Jack and Jill
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Jack and Jill go up a hill to fetch a pail of water and have an accident on the way down.
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| rhymeScheme | simple rhyming couplets ⓘ |
| targetAudience | children ⓘ |
| usedAs |
early childhood learning material
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nursery rhyme for young children ⓘ |
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Jack and Jill went up the hill
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.