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title: The Oxen and the Wheels — The Aesop for Children · full text with trees
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# The Oxen and the Wheels

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The Oxen and the Wheels of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 11 sentences and 146 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/pg19994/18/1/) — A pair of Oxen were drawing a heavily loaded wagon along a miry country road.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/18/2/) — They had to use all their strength to pull the wagon, but they did not complain.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/18/3/) — The Wheels of the wagon were of a different sort.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/18/4/) — Though the task they had to do was very light compared with that of the Oxen, they creaked and groaned at every turn.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/18/5/) — The poor Oxen, pulling with all their might to draw the wagon through the deep mud, had their ears filled with the loud complaining of the Wheels.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/18/6/) — And this, you may well know, made their work so much the harder to endure.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/18/7/) — "Silence!" the Oxen cried at last, out of patience. "
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/18/8/) — What have you Wheels to complain about so loudly?
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/18/9/) — We are drawing all the weight, not you, and we are keeping still about it besides."
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/18/10/) — \_They complain most who suffer least.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/18/11/) — \_

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