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title: The Flies and the Honey — The Aesop for Children · full text with trees
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# The Flies and the Honey

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The Flies and the Honey of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 11 sentences and 102 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself; 1 of them are in the tales treebank and were checked by a teacher model.

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- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/122/1/) — A jar of honey was upset and the sticky sweetness flowed out on the table.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/122/2/) — The sweet smell of the honey soon brought a large number of Flies buzzing around.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/122/3/) — They did not wait for an invitation.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/122/4/) — No, indeed; they settled right down, feet and all, to gorge themselves. — checked by a teacher
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/122/5/) — The Flies were quickly smeared from head to foot with honey.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/122/6/) — Their wings stuck together.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/122/7/) — They could not pull their feet out of the sticky mass.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/122/8/) — And so they died, giving their lives for the sake of a taste of sweetness.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/122/9/) — \_Be not greedy for a little passing pleasure.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/122/10/) — It may destroy you.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/122/11/) — \_

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