--- title: The Frogs Who Wished For a King — The Aesop for Children · full text with trees description: The Frogs Who Wished For a King, «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: The Frogs were tired of governing themselves. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/27/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Aesop for Children](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/) / The Frogs Who Wished For a King # The Frogs Who Wished For a King The Frogs Who Wished For a King of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 16 sentences and 286 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself; 1 of them are in the tales treebank and were checked by a teacher model. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/27/1/) — The Frogs were tired of governing themselves. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/27/2/) — They had so much freedom that it had spoiled them, and they did nothing but sit around croaking in a bored manner and wishing for a government that could entertain them with the pomp and display of royalty, and rule them in a way to make them know they were being ruled. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/27/3/) — No milk and water government for them, they declared. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/27/4/) — So they sent a petition to Jupiter asking for a king. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/27/5/) — Jupiter saw what simple and foolish creatures they were, but to keep them quiet and make them think they had a king he threw down a huge log, which fell into the water with a great splash. — checked by a teacher - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/27/6/) — The Frogs hid themselves among the reeds and grasses, thinking the new king to be some fearful giant. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/27/7/) — But they soon discovered how tame and peaceable King Log was. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/27/8/) — In a short time the younger Frogs were using him for a diving platform, while the older Frogs made him a meeting place, where they complained loudly to Jupiter about the government. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/27/9/) — To teach the Frogs a lesson the ruler of the gods now sent a Crane to be king of Frogland. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/27/10/) — The Crane proved to be a very different sort of king from old King Log. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/27/11/) — He gobbled up the poor Frogs right and left and they soon saw what fools they had been. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/27/12/) — In mournful croaks they begged Jupiter to take away the cruel tyrant before they should all be destroyed. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/27/13/) — "How now!" cried Jupiter "Are you not yet content? - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/27/14/) — You have what you asked for and so you have only yourselves to blame for your misfortunes." - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/27/15/) — \_Be sure you can better your condition before you seek to change. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/27/16/) — \_ - ← previous: [The Lion and the Ass](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/26/) - next →: [The Owl and the Grasshopper](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/28/) - ↑ back to [The Aesop for Children](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/)