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# The Hares and the Frogs

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The Hares and the Frogs of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 9 sentences and 124 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/pg19994/49/1/) — Hares, as you know, are very timid.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/49/2/) — The least shadow, sends them scurrying in fright to a hiding place.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/49/3/) — Once they decided to die rather than live in such misery.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/49/4/) — But while they were debating how best to meet death, they thought they heard a noise and in a flash were scampering off to the warren.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/49/5/) — On the way they passed a pond where a family of Frogs was sitting among the reeds on the bank.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/49/6/) — In an instant the startled Frogs were seeking safety in the mud.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/49/7/) — "Look," cried a Hare, "things are not so bad after all, for here are creatures who are even afraid of us!"
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/49/8/) — \_However unfortunate we may think we are there is always someone worse off than ourselves.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/49/9/) — \_

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