--- title: The Owl and the Grasshopper — The Aesop for Children · full text with trees description: The Owl and the Grasshopper, «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: The Owl always takes her sleep during the day. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/28/) [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 Owl and the Grasshopper # The Owl and the Grasshopper The Owl and the Grasshopper of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 24 sentences and 405 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/28/1/) — The Owl always takes her sleep during the day. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/28/2/) — Then after sundown, when the rosy light fades from the sky and the shadows rise slowly through the wood, out she comes ruffling and blinking from the old hollow tree. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/28/3/) — Now her weird "hoo-hoo-hoo-oo-oo" echoes through the quiet wood, and she begins her hunt for the bugs and beetles, frogs and mice she likes so well to eat. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/28/4/) — Now there was a certain old Owl who had become very cross and hard to please as she grew older, especially if anything disturbed her daily slumbers. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/28/5/) — One warm summer afternoon as she dozed away in her den in the old oak tree, a Grasshopper nearby began a joyous but very raspy song. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/28/6/) — Out popped the old Owl's head from the opening in the tree that served her both for door and for window. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/28/7/) — "Get away from here, sir," she said to the Grasshopper. " - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/28/8/) — Have you no manners? - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/28/9/) — You should at least respect my age and leave me to sleep in quiet!" - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/28/10/) — But the Grasshopper answered saucily that he had as much right to his place in the sun as the Owl had to her place in the old oak. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/28/11/) — Then he struck up a louder and still more rasping tune. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/28/12/) — The wise old Owl knew quite well that it would do no good to argue with the Grasshopper, nor with anybody else for that matter. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/28/13/) — Besides, her eyes were not sharp enough by day to permit her to punish the Grasshopper as he deserved. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/28/14/) — So she laid aside all hard words and spoke very kindly to him. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/28/15/) — "Well sir," she said, "if I must stay awake, I am going to settle right down to enjoy your singing. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/28/16/) — Now that I think of it, I have a wonderful wine here, sent me from Olympus, of which I am told Apollo drinks before he sings to the high gods. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/28/17/) — Please come up and taste this delicious drink with me. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/28/18/) — I know it will make you sing like Apollo himself." - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/28/19/) — The foolish Grasshopper was taken in by the Owl's flattering words. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/28/20/) — Up he jumped to the Owl's den, but as soon as he was near enough so the old Owl could see him clearly, she pounced upon him and ate him up. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/28/21/) — \_Flattery is not a proof of true admiration. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/28/22/) — \_ - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/28/23/) — \_Do not let flattery throw you off your guard against an enemy. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/28/24/) — \_ - ← previous: [The Frogs Who Wished For a King](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/27/) - next →: [The Wolf and His Shadow](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/29/) - ↑ back to [The Aesop for Children](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/)