--- title: The Ass and the Lap Dog — The Aesop for Children · full text with trees description: The Ass and the Lap Dog, «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: There was once an Ass whose Master also owned a Lap Dog. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/102/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Aesop for Children](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/) / The Ass and the Lap Dog # The Ass and the Lap Dog The Ass and the Lap Dog of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 17 sentences and 312 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. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/102/1/) — There was once an Ass whose Master also owned a Lap Dog. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/102/2/) — This Dog was a favorite and received many a pat and kind word from his Master, as well as choice bits from his plate. — checked by a teacher - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/102/3/) — Every day the Dog would run to meet the Master, frisking playfully about and leaping up to lick his hands and face. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/102/4/) — All this the Ass saw with much discontent. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/102/5/) — Though he was well fed, he had much work to do; besides, the Master hardly ever took any notice of him. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/102/6/) — Now the jealous Ass got it into his silly head that all he had to do to win his Master's favor was to act like the Dog. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/102/7/) — So one day he left his stable and clattered eagerly into the house. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/102/8/) — Finding his Master seated at the dinner table, he kicked up his heels and, with a loud bray, pranced giddily around the table, upsetting it as he did so. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/102/9/) — Then he planted his forefeet on his Master's knees and rolled out his tongue to lick the Master's face, as he had seen the Dog do. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/102/10/) — But his weight upset the chair, and Ass and man rolled over together in the pile of broken dishes from the table. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/102/11/) — The Master was much alarmed at the strange behavior of the Ass, and calling for help, soon attracted the attention of the servants. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/102/12/) — When they saw the danger the Master was in from the clumsy beast, they set upon the Ass and drove him with kicks and blows back to the stable. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/102/13/) — There they left him to mourn the foolishness that had brought him nothing but a sound beating. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/102/14/) — \_Behavior that is regarded as agreeable in one is very rude and impertinent in another. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/102/15/) — \_ - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/102/16/) — \_Do not try to gain favor by acting in a way that is contrary to your own nature and character. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/102/17/) — \_ - ← previous: [The Man and the Lion](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/101/) - next →: [The Milkmaid and Her Pail](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/103/) - ↑ back to [The Aesop for Children](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/)