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# The Two Goats

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The Two Goats of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 11 sentences and 132 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/pg19994/37/1/) — Two Goats, frisking gayly on the rocky steeps of a mountain valley, chanced to meet, one on each side of a deep chasm through which poured a mighty mountain torrent.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/37/2/) — The trunk of a fallen tree formed the only means of crossing the chasm, and on this not even two squirrels could have passed each other in safety.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/37/3/) — The narrow path would have made the bravest tremble.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/37/4/) — Not so our Goats.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/37/5/) — Their pride would not permit either to stand aside for the other.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/37/6/) — One set her foot on the log.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/37/7/) — The other did likewise.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/37/8/) — In the middle they met horn to horn.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/37/9/) — Neither would give way, and so they both fell, to be swept away by the roaring torrent below.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/37/10/) — \_It is better to yield than to come to misfortune through stubbornness.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/37/11/) — \_

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