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title: The Miser — The Aesop for Children · full text with trees
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# The Miser

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The Miser of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 20 sentences and 218 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/pg19994/106/1/) — A Miser had buried his gold in a secret place in his garden.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/106/2/) — Every day he went to the spot, dug up the treasure and counted it piece by piece to make sure it was all there.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/106/3/) — He made so many trips that a Thief, who had been observing him, guessed what it was the Miser had hidden, and one night quietly dug up the treasure and made off with it.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/106/4/) — When the Miser discovered his loss, he was overcome with grief and despair.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/106/5/) — He groaned and cried and tore his hair.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/106/6/) — A passerby heard his cries and asked what had happened.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/106/7/) — "My gold!
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/106/8/) — O my gold!" cried the Miser, wildly, "someone has robbed me!"
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/106/9/) — "Your gold!
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/106/10/) — There in that hole?
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/106/11/) — Why did you put it there?
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/106/12/) — Why did you not keep it in the house where you could easily get it when you had to buy things?"
- [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/106/13/) — "Buy!" screamed the Miser angrily. "
- [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/106/14/) — Why, I never touched the gold.
- [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/106/15/) — I couldn't think of spending any of it."
- [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/106/16/) — The stranger picked up a large stone and threw it into the hole.
- [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/106/17/) — "If that is the case," he said, "cover up that stone.
- [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/106/18/) — It is worth just as much to you as the treasure you lost!"
- [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/106/19/) — \_A possession is worth no more than the use we make of it.
- [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/106/20/) — \_

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