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# The Cat and the Fox

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The Cat and the Fox of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 17 sentences and 223 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/pg19994/114/1/) — Once a Cat and a Fox were traveling together.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/114/2/) — As they went along, picking up provisions on the way--a stray mouse here, a fat chicken there--they began an argument to while away the time between bites.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/114/3/) — And, as usually happens when comrades argue, the talk began to get personal.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/114/4/) — "You think you are extremely clever, don't you?" said the Fox. "
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/114/5/) — Do you pretend to know more than I?
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/114/6/) — Why, I know a whole sackful of tricks!"
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/114/7/) — "Well," retorted the Cat, "I admit I know one trick only, but that one, let me tell you, is worth a thousand of yours!"
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/114/8/) — Just then, close by, they heard a hunter's horn and the yelping of a pack of hounds.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/114/9/) — In an instant the Cat was up a tree, hiding among the leaves.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/114/10/) — "This is my trick," he called to the Fox. "
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/114/11/) — Now let me see what yours are worth."
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/114/12/) — But the Fox had so many plans for escape he could not decide which one to try first.
- [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/114/13/) — He dodged here and there with the hounds at his heels.
- [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/114/14/) — He doubled on his tracks, he ran at top speed, he entered a dozen burrows,--but all in vain.
- [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/114/15/) — The hounds caught him, and soon put an end to the boaster and all his tricks.
- [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/114/16/) — \_Common sense is always worth more than cunning.
- [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/114/17/) — \_

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