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# The Wolf and the Crane

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The Wolf and the Crane of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 15 sentences and 186 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/pg19994/16/1/) — A Wolf had been feasting too greedily, and a bone had stuck crosswise in his throat.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/16/2/) — He could get it neither up nor down, and of course he could not eat a thing.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/16/3/) — Naturally that was an awful state of affairs for a greedy Wolf.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/16/4/) — So away he hurried to the Crane.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/16/5/) — He was sure that she, with her long neck and bill, would easily be able to reach the bone and pull it out.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/16/6/) — "I will reward you very handsomely," said the Wolf, "if you pull that bone out for me."
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/16/7/) — The Crane, as you can imagine, was very uneasy about putting her head in a Wolf's throat.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/16/8/) — But she was grasping in nature, so she did what the Wolf asked her to do.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/16/9/) — When the Wolf felt that the bone was gone, he started to walk away.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/16/10/) — "But what about my reward!" called the Crane anxiously.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/16/11/) — "What!" snarled the Wolf, whirling around. "
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/16/12/) — Haven't you got it?
- [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/16/13/) — Isn't it enough that I let you take your head out of my mouth without snapping it off?"
- [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/16/14/) — \_Expect no reward for serving the wicked.
- [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/16/15/) — \_

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