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# The Gnat and the Bull

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The Gnat and the Bull of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 10 sentences and 114 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/pg19994/21/1/) — A Gnat flew over the meadow with much buzzing for so small a creature and settled on the tip of one of the horns of a Bull.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/21/2/) — After he had rested a short time, he made ready to fly away.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/21/3/) — But before he left he begged the Bull's pardon for having used his horn for a resting place.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/21/4/) — "You must be very glad to have me go now," he said.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/21/5/) — "It's all the same to me," replied the Bull. "
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/21/6/) — I did not even know you were there."
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/21/7/) — \_We are often of greater importance in our own eyes than in the eyes of our neighbor.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/21/8/) — \_
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/21/9/) — \_The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/21/10/) — \_

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