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# The Boys and the Frogs

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The Boys and the Frogs of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 7 sentences and 121 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/pg19994/32/1/) — Some Boys were playing one day at the edge of a pond in which lived a family of Frogs.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/32/2/) — The Boys amused themselves by throwing stones into the pond so as to make them skip on top of the water.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/32/3/) — The stones were flying thick and fast and the Boys were enjoying themselves very much; but the poor Frogs in the pond were trembling with fear.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/32/4/) — At last one of the Frogs, the oldest and bravest, put his head out of the water, and said, "Oh, please, dear children, stop your cruel play!
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/32/5/) — Though it may be fun for you, it means death to us!"
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/32/6/) — \_Always stop to think whether your fun may not be the cause of another's unhappiness.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/32/7/) — \_

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