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title: The Cock and the Fox — The Aesop for Children · full text with trees
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# The Cock and the Fox

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The Cock and the Fox of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 12 sentences and 161 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself; 2 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/pg19994/146/1/) — A Fox was caught in a trap one fine morning, because he had got too near the Farmer's hen house.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/146/2/) — No doubt he was hungry, but that was not an excuse for stealing.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/146/3/) — A Cock, rising early, discovered what had happened.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/146/4/) — He knew the Fox could not get at him, so he went a little closer to get a good look at his enemy.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/146/5/) — The Fox saw a slender chance of escape. — checked by a teacher
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/146/6/) — "Dear friend," he said, "I was just on my way to visit a sick relative, when I stumbled into this string and got all tangled up. — checked by a teacher
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/146/7/) — But please do not tell anybody about it.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/146/8/) — I dislike causing sorrow to anybody, and I am sure I can soon gnaw this string to pieces."
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/146/9/) — But the Cock was not to be so easily fooled.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/146/10/) — He soon roused the whole hen yard, and when the Farmer came running out, that was the end of Mr. Fox.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/146/11/) — \_The wicked deserve no aid.
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/146/12/) — \_

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