XX. Henny-penny. XX. Henny-penny. of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 7 sentences and 92 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself.
1 _Source_.--I give this as it was told me in Australia in 1860. 2 The fun consists in the avoidance of all pronouns, which results in jaw-breaking sentences almost equal to the celebrated “She stood at the door of the fish-sauce shop, welcoming him in.” 3 _Parallels_.--Halliwell, p. 151, has the same with the title “Chicken-Licken.” 4 It occurs also in Chambers's _Popular Rhymes_, p. 59, with the same names of the _dramatis personae_, as my version. 5 For European parallels, see Crane, _Ital. 6 Pop. 7 Tales_, 377, and authorities there quoted. ← previous XIX. Jack the Giant-killer.next → XXI. Childe Rowland.↑ back to English Fairy Tales This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/70/