--- title: The Wolf and the House Dog — The Aesop for Children · full text with trees description: The Wolf and the House Dog, «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: There was once a Wolf who got very little to eat because the Dogs of the village were so wide awake and watchful. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/107/) [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 Wolf and the House Dog # The Wolf and the House Dog The Wolf and the House Dog of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 31 sentences and 346 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/107/1/) — There was once a Wolf who got very little to eat because the Dogs of the village were so wide awake and watchful. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/107/2/) — He was really nothing but skin and bones, and it made him very downhearted to think of it. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/107/3/) — One night this Wolf happened to fall in with a fine fat House Dog who had wandered a little too far from home. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/107/4/) — The Wolf would gladly have eaten him then and there, but the House Dog looked strong enough to leave his marks should he try it. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/107/5/) — So the Wolf spoke very humbly to the Dog, complimenting him on his fine appearance. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/107/6/) — "You can be as well-fed as I am if you want to," replied the Dog. " - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/107/7/) — Leave the woods; there you live miserably. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/107/8/) — Why, you have to fight hard for every bite you get. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/107/9/) — Follow my example and you will get along beautifully." - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/107/10/) — "What must I do?" asked the Wolf. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/107/11/) — "Hardly anything," answered the House Dog. " - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/107/12/) — Chase people who carry canes, bark at beggars, and fawn on the people of the house. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/107/13/) — In return you will get tidbits of every kind, chicken bones, choice bits of meat, sugar, cake, and much more beside, not to speak of kind words and caresses." - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/107/14/) — The Wolf had such a beautiful vision of his coming happiness that he almost wept. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/107/15/) — But just then he noticed that the hair on the Dog's neck was worn and the skin was chafed. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/107/16/) — "What is that on your neck?" - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/107/17/) — "Nothing at all," replied the Dog. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/107/18/) — "What! nothing!" - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/107/19/) — "Oh, just a trifle!" - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/107/20/) — "But please tell me." - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/107/21/) — "Perhaps you see the mark of the collar to which my chain is fastened." - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/107/22/) — "What! - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/107/23/) — A chain!" cried the Wolf. " - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/107/24/) — Don't you go wherever you please?" - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/107/25/) — "Not always! - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/107/26/) — But what's the difference?" replied the Dog. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/107/27/) — "All the difference in the world! - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/107/28/) — I don't care a rap for your feasts and I wouldn't take all the tender young lambs in the world at that price." - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/107/29/) — And away ran the Wolf to the woods. - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/107/30/) — \_There is nothing worth so much as liberty. - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/107/31/) — \_ - ← previous: [The Miser](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/106/) - next →: [The Fox and the Hedgehog](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/108/) - ↑ back to [The Aesop for Children](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/)