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title: The Man and the Lion — The Aesop for Children · full text with trees
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# The Man and the Lion

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The Man and the Lion of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 10 sentences and 124 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself; 1 of them are in the tales treebank and were checked by a teacher model.

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- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/101/1/) — A Lion and a Man chanced to travel in company through the forest.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/101/2/) — They soon began to quarrel, for each of them boasted that he and his kind were far superior to the other both in strength and mind.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/101/3/) — Now they reached a clearing in the forest and there stood a statue.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/101/4/) — It was a representation of Heracles in the act of tearing the jaws of the Nemean Lion. — checked by a teacher
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/101/5/) — "See," said the man, "that's how strong \_we\_ are!
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/101/6/) — The King of Beasts is like wax in our hands!"
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/101/7/) — "Ho!" laughed the Lion, "a Man made that statue.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/101/8/) — It would have been quite a different scene had a Lion made it!"
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/101/9/) — \_It all depends on the point of view, and who tells the story.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/101/10/) — \_

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