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# The Wild Boar and the Fox

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The Wild Boar and the Fox of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 10 sentences and 128 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/pg19994/43/1/) — A Wild Boar was sharpening his tusks busily against the stump of a tree, when a Fox happened by.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/43/2/) — Now the Fox was always looking for a chance to make fun of his neighbors.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/43/3/) — So he made a great show of looking anxiously about, as if in fear of some hidden enemy.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/43/4/) — But the Boar kept right on with his work.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/43/5/) — "Why are you doing that?" asked the Fox at last with a grin. "
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/43/6/) — There isn't any danger that I can see."
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/43/7/) — "True enough," replied the Boar, "but when danger does come there will not be time for such work as this.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/43/8/) — My weapons will have to be ready for use then, or I shall suffer for it."
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/43/9/) — \_Preparedness for war is the best guarantee of peace.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/43/10/) — \_

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