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# The Boy and the Filberts

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The Boy and the Filberts of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 8 sentences and 100 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/pg19994/10/1/) — A Boy was given permission to put his hand into a pitcher to get some filberts.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/10/2/) — But he took such a great fistful that he could not draw his hand out again.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/10/3/) — There he stood, unwilling to give up a single filbert and yet unable to get them all out at once.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/10/4/) — Vexed and disappointed he began to cry.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/10/5/) — "My boy," said his mother, "be satisfied with half the nuts you have taken and you will easily get your hand out.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/10/6/) — Then perhaps you may have some more filberts some other time."
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/10/7/) — \_Do not attempt too much at once.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/10/8/) — \_

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