--- title: The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse — The Aesop for Children · full text with trees description: The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: A Town Mouse once visited a relative who lived in the country. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Aesop for Children](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/) / The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse # The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 16 sentences and 357 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/13/1/) — A Town Mouse once visited a relative who lived in the country. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/13/2/) — For lunch the Country Mouse served wheat stalks, roots, and acorns, with a dash of cold water for drink. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/13/3/) — The Town Mouse ate very sparingly, nibbling a little of this and a little of that, and by her manner making it very plain that she ate the simple food only to be polite. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/13/4/) — After the meal the friends had a long talk, or rather the Town Mouse talked about her life in the city while the Country Mouse listened. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/13/5/) — They then went to bed in a cozy nest in the hedgerow and slept in quiet and comfort until morning. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/13/6/) — In her sleep the Country Mouse dreamed she was a Town Mouse with all the luxuries and delights of city life that her friend had described for her. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/13/7/) — So the next day when the Town Mouse asked the Country Mouse to go home with her to the city, she gladly said yes. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/13/8/) — When they reached the mansion in which the Town Mouse lived, they found on the table in the dining room the leavings of a very fine banquet. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/13/9/) — There were sweetmeats and jellies, pastries, delicious cheeses, indeed, the most tempting foods that a Mouse can imagine. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/13/10/) — But just as the Country Mouse was about to nibble a dainty bit of pastry, she heard a Cat mew loudly and scratch at the door. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/13/11/) — In great fear the Mice scurried to a hiding place, where they lay quite still for a long time, hardly daring to breathe. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/13/12/) — When at last they ventured back to the feast, the door opened suddenly and in came the servants to clear the table, followed by the House Dog. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/13/13/) — The Country Mouse stopped in the Town Mouse's den only long enough to pick up her carpet bag and umbrella. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/13/14/) — "You may have luxuries and dainties that I have not," she said as she hurried away, "but I prefer my plain food and simple life in the country with the peace and security that go with it." - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/13/15/) — \_Poverty with security is better than plenty in the midst of fear and uncertainty. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/13/16/) — \_ - ← previous: [The Kid and the Wolf](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/12/) - next →: [The Fox and the Grapes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/14/) - ↑ back to [The Aesop for Children](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/)