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# The Boy and the Nettle

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The Boy and the Nettle of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 4 sentences and 59 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/pg19994/115/1/) — A Boy, stung by a Nettle, ran home crying, to get his mother to blow on the hurt and kiss it.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/115/2/) — "Son," said the Boy's mother, when she had comforted him, "the next time you come near a Nettle, grasp it firmly, and it will be as soft as silk."
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/115/3/) — \_Whatever you do, do with all your might.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/115/4/) — \_

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