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# The Ants and the Grasshopper

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The Ants and the Grasshopper of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 10 sentences and 142 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/pg19994/34/1/) — One bright day in late autumn a family of Ants were bustling about in the warm sunshine, drying out the grain they had stored up during the summer, when a starving Grasshopper, his fiddle under his arm, came up and humbly begged for a bite to eat.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/34/2/) — "What!" cried the Ants in surprise, "haven't you stored anything away for the winter?
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/34/3/) — What in the world were you doing all last summer?"
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/34/4/) — "I didn't have time to store up any food," whined the Grasshopper; "I was so busy making music that before I knew it the summer was gone."
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/34/5/) — The Ants shrugged their shoulders in disgust.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/34/6/) — "Making music, were you?" they cried. "
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/34/7/) — Very well; now dance!"
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/34/8/) — And they turned their backs on the Grasshopper and went on with their work.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/34/9/) — \_There's a time for work and a time for play.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/34/10/) — \_

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