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# The Lion, the Bear, and the Fox

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The Lion, the Bear, and the Fox of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 6 sentences and 103 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/pg19994/46/1/) — Just as a great Bear rushed to seize a stray kid, a Lion leaped from another direction upon the same prey.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/46/2/) — The two fought furiously for the prize until they had received so many wounds that both sank down unable to continue the battle.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/46/3/) — Just then a Fox dashed up, and seizing the kid, made off with it as fast as he could go, while the Lion and the Bear looked on in helpless rage.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/46/4/) — "How much better it would have been," they said, "to have shared in a friendly spirit."
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/46/5/) — \_Those who have all the toil do not always get the profit.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/46/6/) — \_

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