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description: The Bat and the Weasels, «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: A Bat blundered into the nest of a Weasel, who ran up to catch and eat him.
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# The Bat and the Weasels

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The Bat and the Weasels of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 20 sentences and 190 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/pg19994/109/1/) — A Bat blundered into the nest of a Weasel, who ran up to catch and eat him.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/109/2/) — The Bat begged for his life, but the Weasel would not listen.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/109/3/) — "You are a Mouse," he said, "and I am a sworn enemy of Mice.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/109/4/) — Every Mouse I catch, I am going to eat!"
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/109/5/) — "But I am not a Mouse!" cried the Bat. "
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/109/6/) — Look at my wings.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/109/7/) — Can Mice fly?
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/109/8/) — Why, I am only a Bird!
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/109/9/) — Please let me go!"
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/109/10/) — The Weasel had to admit that the Bat was not a Mouse, so he let him go.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/109/11/) — But a few days later, the foolish Bat went blindly into the nest of another Weasel.
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/109/12/) — This Weasel happened to be a bitter enemy of Birds, and he soon had the Bat under his claws, ready to eat him.
- [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/109/13/) — "You are a Bird," he said, "and I am going to eat you!"
- [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/109/14/) — "What," cried the Bat, "I, a Bird!
- [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/109/15/) — Why, all Birds have feathers!
- [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/109/16/) — I am nothing but a Mouse. '
- [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/109/17/) — Down with all Cats,' is \_my\_ motto!"
- [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/109/18/) — And so the Bat escaped with his life a second time.
- [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/109/19/) — \_Set your sails with the wind.
- [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/109/20/) — \_

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