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# XX. Henny-penny.

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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.

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- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/70/1/) — \_Source\_.--I give this as it was told me in Australia in 1860.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/70/2/) — 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/70/3/) — \_Parallels\_.--Halliwell, p. 151, has the same with the title “Chicken-Licken.”
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/70/4/) — It occurs also in Chambers's \_Popular Rhymes\_, p. 59, with the same names of the \_dramatis personae\_, as my version.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/70/5/) — For European parallels, see Crane, \_Ital.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/70/6/) — Pop.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/70/7/) — Tales\_, 377, and authorities there quoted.

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