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title: The Young Crab and His Mother — The Aesop for Children · full text with trees
description: The Young Crab and His Mother, «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: "Why in the world do you walk sideways like that?" said a Mother Crab to her son. "
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# The Young Crab and His Mother

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The Young Crab and His Mother of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 8 sentences and 96 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/pg19994/5/1/) — "Why in the world do you walk sideways like that?" said a Mother Crab to her son. "
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/5/2/) — You should always walk straight forward with your toes turned out."
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/5/3/) — "Show me how to walk, mother dear," answered the little Crab obediently, "I want to learn."
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/5/4/) — So the old Crab tried and \_tried\_ to walk straight forward.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/5/5/) — But she could walk sideways only, like her son.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/5/6/) — And when she wanted to turn her toes out she tripped and fell on her nose.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/5/7/) — \_Do not tell others how to act unless you can set a good example.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/5/8/) — \_

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