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...they may be extended to an arbitrary depth, as is seen from the right-branching structure [The cow uO Za,! 8O H\ > 7WS _ 8" %cu t *_ Fe ` YSl+ + G tw vwN R e The crucial fact about such examples is that as each new sentence is begun, the previous sentence is...

...shorn, That married the man all tattered and torn, That kissed the maiden all forlorn, That milked the cow with the crumpled horn, That tossed the dog, That worried the cat, That caught the rat, That ate the malt That lay in the house that Jack built. Both 'How the Mouse Regained...

...nurseryrhyme, concerned with 'a man all tattered and torn, That kissed the maiden all forlorn, That milked the cow with the crumpled horn, That tossed the dog, That worried the cat, That lay in the house that Jack built.' The name would have an obvious appeal to licensees called Jack....

...and shorn That married the man all tattered and torn That kissed the maiden all forlorn That milked the cow with the crumpled horn That tossed the dog...the cat That killed the rat That ate the malt That lay in the house that Jack built. 23. One of many imitations can be found in The Queen That Jack Found...

...That ate the malt That lay in the house that Jack built. This is the maiden all forlorn, That milked the cow with the crumpled horn, That tossed the dog,...the cat, That killed the rat, That ate the malt That lay in the house that Jack built This is the man all tattered and torn, That kissed the maiden all...

...— articles, possessive pronouns, or numbers — that come before nouns in noun phrases. That milked the cow with the crumpled horn, That tossed the dog,...the cat, That killed the rat, That ate the malt That lay in the house that Jack built. In this story, the rule that creates a relative clause (here, the...

...Jack built. This is the man all tattered and torn, That kissed the maiden all forlorn, That milked the cow with the crumpled horn, That tossed the dog,...worried the cat, That killed the rat, That ate the malt -•»_ * That lay in the house that Jack built. \ A-Gu/^ -«=: This is the priest all shaven and shorn,...

...shorn, That married the man all tattered and torn, That kissed the maiden all forlorn, i* That milked the cow with the crumpled horn, That tossed the dog, That worried the cat, That chased the rat, That ate the malt That lay in the house that Jack built. That waked the priest all...

...This is the cat that killed the rat that ate the malt that lay in the house that Jack built. This is the dog that worried the cat that killed the rat that ate the malt that lay in the house that Jack built. This increasingly recursive sequence does not involve intentional...