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# The Travelers and the Sea

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The Travelers and the Sea of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 12 sentences and 114 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/pg19994/51/1/) — Two Travelers were walking along the seashore.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/51/2/) — Far out they saw something riding on the waves.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/51/3/) — "Look," said one, "a great ship rides in from distant lands, bearing rich treasures!"
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/51/4/) — The object they saw came ever nearer the shore.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/51/5/) — "No," said the other, "that is not a treasure ship.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/51/6/) — That is some fisherman's skiff, with the day's catch of savoury fish."
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/51/7/) — Still nearer came the object.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/51/8/) — The waves washed it up on shore.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/51/9/) — "It is a chest of gold lost from some wreck," they cried.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/51/10/) — Both Travelers rushed to the beach, but there they found nothing but a water-soaked log.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/51/11/) — \_Do not let your hopes carry you away from reality.
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/51/12/) — \_

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