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# The Milkmaid and Her Pail

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The Milkmaid and Her Pail of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 12 sentences and 212 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/pg19994/103/1/) — A Milkmaid had been out to milk the cows and was returning from the field with the shining milk pail balanced nicely on her head.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/103/2/) — As she walked along, her pretty head was busy with plans for the days to come.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/103/3/) — "This good, rich milk," she mused, "will give me plenty of cream to churn.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/103/4/) — The butter I make I will take to market, and with the money I get for it I will buy a lot of eggs for hatching.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/103/5/) — How nice it will be when they are all hatched and the yard is full of fine young chicks.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/103/6/) — Then when May day comes I will sell them, and with the money I'll buy a lovely new dress to wear to the fair.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/103/7/) — All the young men will look at me.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/103/8/) — They will come and try to make love to me,--but I shall very quickly send them about their business!"
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/103/9/) — As she thought of how she would settle that matter, she tossed her head scornfully, and down fell the pail of milk to the ground.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/103/10/) — And all the milk flowed out, and with it vanished butter and eggs and chicks and new dress and all the milkmaid's pride.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/103/11/) — \_Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/103/12/) — \_

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