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title: The Old Lion — The Aesop for Children · full text with trees
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# The Old Lion

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The Old Lion of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 9 sentences and 99 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/pg19994/116/1/) — A Lion had grown very old.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/116/2/) — His teeth were worn away.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/116/3/) — His limbs could no longer bear him, and the King of Beasts was very pitiful indeed as he lay gasping on the ground, about to die.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/116/4/) — Where now his strength and his former graceful beauty?
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/116/5/) — Now a Boar spied him, and rushing at him, gored him with his yellow tusk.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/116/6/) — A Bull trampled him with his heavy hoofs.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/116/7/) — Even a contemptible Ass let fly his heels and brayed his insults in the face of the Lion.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/116/8/) — \_It is cowardly to attack the defenseless, though he be an enemy.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/116/9/) — \_

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