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# The Stag and His Reflection

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The Stag and His Reflection of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 8 sentences and 131 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/pg19994/53/1/) — A Stag, drinking from a crystal spring, saw himself mirrored in the clear water.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/53/2/) — He greatly admired the graceful arch of his antlers, but he was very much ashamed of his spindling legs.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/53/3/) — "How can it be," he sighed, "that I should be cursed with such legs when I have so magnificent a crown."
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/53/4/) — At that moment he scented a panther and in an instant was bounding away through the forest.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/53/5/) — But as he ran his wide-spreading antlers caught in the branches of the trees, and soon the Panther overtook him.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/53/6/) — Then the Stag perceived that the legs of which he was so ashamed would have saved him had it not been for the useless ornaments on his head.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/53/7/) — \_We often make much of the ornamental and despise the useful.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/53/8/) — \_

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