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# The Oak and the Reeds

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The Oak and the Reeds of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 15 sentences and 191 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/pg19994/30/1/) — A Giant Oak stood near a brook in which grew some slender Reeds.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/30/2/) — When the wind blew, the great Oak stood proudly upright with its hundred arms uplifted to the sky.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/30/3/) — But the Reeds bowed low in the wind and sang a sad and mournful song.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/30/4/) — "You have reason to complain," said the Oak. "
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/30/5/) — The slightest breeze that ruffles the surface of the water makes you bow your heads, while I, the mighty Oak, stand upright and firm before the howling tempest."
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/30/6/) — "Do not worry about us," replied the Reeds. "
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/30/7/) — The winds do not harm us.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/30/8/) — We bow before them and so we do not break.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/30/9/) — You, in all your pride and strength, have so far resisted their blows.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/30/10/) — But the end is coming."
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/30/11/) — As the Reeds spoke a great hurricane rushed out of the north.
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/30/12/) — The Oak stood proudly and fought against the storm, while the yielding Reeds bowed low.
- [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/30/13/) — The wind redoubled in fury, and all at once the great tree fell, torn up by the roots, and lay among the pitying Reeds.
- [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/30/14/) — \_Better to yield when it is folly to resist, than to resist stubbornly and be destroyed.
- [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/30/15/) — \_

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