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# The Farmer and the Stork

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The Farmer and the Stork of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 9 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/pg19994/23/1/) — A Stork of a very simple and trusting nature had been asked by a gay party of Cranes to visit a field that had been newly planted.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/23/2/) — But the party ended dismally with all the birds entangled in the meshes of the Farmer's net.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/23/3/) — The Stork begged the Farmer to spare him.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/23/4/) — "Please let me go," he pleaded. "
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/23/5/) — I belong to the Stork family who you know are honest and birds of good character.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/23/6/) — Besides, I did not know the Cranes were going to steal."
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/23/7/) — "You may be a very good bird," answered the Farmer, "but I caught you with the thieving Cranes and you will have to share the same punishment with them."
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/23/8/) — \_You are judged by the company you keep.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/23/9/) — \_

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