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title: The Fisherman and the Little Fish — The Aesop for Children · full text with trees
description: The Fisherman and the Little Fish, «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: A poor Fisherman, who lived on the fish he caught, had bad luck one day and caught nothing but a very small fry.
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# The Fisherman and the Little Fish

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The Fisherman and the Little Fish of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 10 sentences and 111 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/pg19994/148/1/) — A poor Fisherman, who lived on the fish he caught, had bad luck one day and caught nothing but a very small fry.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/148/2/) — The Fisherman was about to put it in his basket when the little Fish said:
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/148/3/) — "Please spare me, Mr. Fisherman!
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/148/4/) — I am so small it is not worth while to carry me home. — checked by a teacher
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/148/5/) — When I am bigger, I shall make you a much better meal."
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/148/6/) — But the Fisherman quickly put the fish into his basket.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/148/7/) — "How foolish I should be," he said, "to throw you back.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/148/8/) — However small you may be, you are better than nothing at all."
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/148/9/) — \_A small gain is worth more than a large promise.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/148/10/) — \_

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