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title: The Crow and the Pitcher — The Aesop for Children · full text with trees
description: The Crow and the Pitcher, «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: In a spell of dry weather, when the Birds could find very little to drink, a thirsty Crow found a pitcher with a little water in it.
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# The Crow and the Pitcher

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The Crow and the Pitcher of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 8 sentences and 115 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.

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- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/33/1/) — In a spell of dry weather, when the Birds could find very little to drink, a thirsty Crow found a pitcher with a little water in it.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/33/2/) — But the pitcher was high and had a narrow neck, and no matter how he tried, the Crow could not reach the water.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/33/3/) — The poor thing felt as if he must die of thirst.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/33/4/) — Then an idea came to him.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/33/5/) — Picking up some small pebbles, he dropped them into the pitcher one by one. — checked by a teacher
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/33/6/) — With each pebble the water rose a little higher until at last it was near enough so he could drink.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/33/7/) — \_In a pinch a good use of our wits may help us out.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/33/8/) — \_

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