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# The Ass and Its Shadow

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The Ass and Its Shadow of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 9 sentences and 167 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/pg19994/133/1/) — A Traveler had hired an Ass to carry him to a distant part of the country.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/133/2/) — The owner of the Ass went with the Traveler, walking beside him to drive the Ass and point out the way.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/133/3/) — The road led across a treeless plain where the Sun beat down fiercely.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/133/4/) — So intense did the heat become, that the Traveler at last decided to stop for a rest, and as there was no other shade to be found, the Traveler sat down in the shadow of the Ass.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/133/5/) — Now the heat had affected the Driver as much as it had the Traveler, and even more, for he had been walking.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/133/6/) — Wishing also to rest in the shade cast by the Ass, he began to quarrel with the Traveler, saying he had hired the Ass and not the shadow it cast.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/133/7/) — The two soon came to blows, and while they were fighting, the Ass took to its heels.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/133/8/) — \_In quarreling about the shadow we often lose the substance.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/133/9/) — \_

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