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# The Ass and the Load of Salt

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The Ass and the Load of Salt of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 10 sentences and 185 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/pg19994/38/1/) — A Merchant, driving his Ass homeward from the seashore with a heavy load of salt, came to a river crossed by a shallow ford.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/38/2/) — They had crossed this river many times before without accident, but this time the Ass slipped and fell when halfway over.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/38/3/) — And when the Merchant at last got him to his feet, much of the salt had melted away.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/38/4/) — Delighted to find how much lighter his burden had become, the Ass finished the journey very gayly.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/38/5/) — Next day the Merchant went for another load of salt.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/38/6/) — On the way home the Ass, remembering what had happened at the ford, purposely let himself fall into the water, and again got rid of most of his burden.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/38/7/) — The angry Merchant immediately turned about and drove the Ass back to the seashore, where he loaded him with two great baskets of sponges.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/38/8/) — At the ford the Ass again tumbled over; but when he had scrambled to his feet, it was a very disconsolate Ass that dragged himself homeward under a load ten times heavier than before.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/38/9/) — \_The same measures will not suit all circumstances.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/38/10/) — \_

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