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title: The Plane Tree — The Aesop for Children · full text with trees
description: The Plane Tree, «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: Two Travellers, walking in the noonday sun, sought the shade of a widespreading tree to rest.
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# The Plane Tree

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The Plane Tree of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 9 sentences and 96 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/pg19994/22/1/) — Two Travellers, walking in the noonday sun, sought the shade of a widespreading tree to rest.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/22/2/) — As they lay looking up among the pleasant leaves, they saw that it was a Plane Tree.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/22/3/) — "How useless is the Plane!" said one of them. "
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/22/4/) — It bears no fruit whatever, and only serves to litter the ground with leaves."
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/22/5/) — "Ungrateful creatures!" said a voice from the Plane Tree. "
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/22/6/) — You lie here in my cooling shade, and yet you say I am useless!
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/22/7/) — Thus ungratefully, O Jupiter, do men receive their blessings!"
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/22/8/) — \_Our best blessings are often the least appreciated.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/22/9/) — \_

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