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# Two Travelers and a Bear

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Two Travelers and a Bear of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 11 sentences and 156 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/pg19994/118/1/) — Two Men were traveling in company through a forest, when, all at once, a huge Bear crashed out of the brush near them.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/118/2/) — One of the Men, thinking of his own safety, climbed a tree.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/118/3/) — The other, unable to fight the savage beast alone, threw himself on the ground and lay still, as if he were dead.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/118/4/) — He had heard that a Bear will not touch a dead body.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/118/5/) — It must have been true, for the Bear snuffed at the Man's head awhile, and then, seeming to be satisfied that he was dead, walked away.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/118/6/) — The Man in the tree climbed down.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/118/7/) — "It looked just as if that Bear whispered in your ear," he said. "
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/118/8/) — What did he tell you?"
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/118/9/) — "He said," answered the other, "that it was not at all wise to keep company with a fellow who would desert his friend in a moment of danger."
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/118/10/) — \_Misfortune is the test of true friendship.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/118/11/) — \_

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