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# The Mother and the Wolf

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The Mother and the Wolf of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 14 sentences and 177 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/pg19994/121/1/) — Early one morning a hungry Wolf was prowling around a cottage at the edge of a village, when he heard a child crying in the house.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/121/2/) — Then he heard the Mother's voice say:
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/121/3/) — "Hush, child, hush!
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/121/4/) — Stop your crying, or I will give you to the Wolf!"
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/121/5/) — Surprised but delighted at the prospect of so delicious a meal, the Wolf settled down under an open window, expecting every moment to have the child handed out to him.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/121/6/) — But though the little one continued to fret, the Wolf waited all day in vain.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/121/7/) — Then, toward nightfall, he heard the Mother's voice again as she sat down near the window to sing and rock her baby to sleep.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/121/8/) — "There, child, there!
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/121/9/) — The Wolf shall not get you.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/121/10/) — No, no!
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/121/11/) — Daddy is watching and Daddy will kill him if he should come near!"
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/121/12/) — Just then the Father came within sight of the home, and the Wolf was barely able to save himself from the Dogs by a clever bit of running.
- [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/121/13/) — \_Do not believe everything you hear.
- [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/121/14/) — \_

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