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title: The Mischievous Dog — The Aesop for Children · full text with trees
description: The Mischievous Dog, «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: There was once a Dog who was so ill-natured and mischievous that his Master had to fasten a heavy wooden clog about his neck to keep him from annoying visitor
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# The Mischievous Dog

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The Mischievous Dog of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 7 sentences and 101 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/pg19994/112/1/) — There was once a Dog who was so ill-natured and mischievous that his Master had to fasten a heavy wooden clog about his neck to keep him from annoying visitors and neighbors.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/112/2/) — But the Dog seemed to be very proud of the clog and dragged it about noisily as if he wished to attract everybody's attention.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/112/3/) — He was not able to impress anyone.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/112/4/) — "You would be wiser," said an old acquaintance, "to keep quietly out of sight with that clog.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/112/5/) — Do you want everybody to know what a disgraceful and ill-natured Dog you are?"
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/112/6/) — \_Notoriety is not fame.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/112/7/) — \_

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