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# The Fighting Cocks and the Eagle

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The Fighting Cocks and the Eagle of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 8 sentences and 123 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/pg19994/149/1/) — Once there were two Cocks living in the same farmyard who could not bear the sight of each other.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/149/2/) — At last one day they flew up to fight it out, beak and claw.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/149/3/) — They fought until one of them was beaten and crawled off to a corner to hide.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/149/4/) — The Cock that had won the battle flew to the top of the hen-house, and, proudly flapping his wings, crowed with all his might to tell the world about his victory.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/149/5/) — But an Eagle, circling overhead, heard the boasting chanticleer and, swooping down, carried him off to his nest.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/149/6/) — His rival saw the deed, and coming out of his corner, took his place as master of the farmyard.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/149/7/) — \_Pride goes before a fall.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/149/8/) — \_

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