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# The Fox and the Hedgehog

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The Fox and the Hedgehog of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 9 sentences and 109 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/pg19994/108/1/) — A Fox, swimming across a river, was barely able to reach the bank, where he lay bruised and exhausted from his struggle with the swift current.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/108/2/) — Soon a swarm of blood-sucking flies settled on him; but he lay quietly, still too weak to run away from them.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/108/3/) — A Hedgehog happened by. "
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/108/4/) — Let me drive the flies away," he said kindly.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/108/5/) — "No, no!" exclaimed the Fox, "do not disturb them!
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/108/6/) — They have taken all they can hold.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/108/7/) — If you drive them away, another greedy swarm will come and take the little blood I have left."
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/108/8/) — \_Better to bear a lesser evil than to risk a greater in removing it.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/108/9/) — \_

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