--- title: The Wolf and the Lean Dog — The Aesop for Children · full text with trees description: The Wolf and the Lean Dog, «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: A Wolf prowling near a village one evening met a Dog. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/56/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Aesop for Children](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/) / The Wolf and the Lean Dog # The Wolf and the Lean Dog The Wolf and the Lean Dog of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 22 sentences and 303 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/56/1/) — A Wolf prowling near a village one evening met a Dog. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/56/2/) — It happened to be a very lean and bony Dog, and Master Wolf would have turned up his nose at such meager fare had he not been more hungry than usual. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/56/3/) — So he began to edge toward the Dog, while the Dog backed away. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/56/4/) — "Let me remind your lordship," said the Dog, his words interrupted now and then as he dodged a snap of the Wolf's teeth, "how unpleasant it would be to eat me now. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/56/5/) — Look at my ribs. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/56/6/) — I am nothing but skin and bone. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/56/7/) — But let me tell you something in private. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/56/8/) — In a few days my master will give a wedding feast for his only daughter. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/56/9/) — You can guess how fine and fat I will grow on the scraps from the table. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/56/10/) — \_Then\_ is the time to eat me." - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/56/11/) — The Wolf could not help thinking how nice it would be to have a fine fat Dog to eat instead of the scrawny object before him. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/56/12/) — So he went away pulling in his belt and promising to return. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/56/13/) — Some days later the Wolf came back for the promised feast. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/56/14/) — He found the Dog in his master's yard, and asked him to come out and be eaten. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/56/15/) — "Sir," said the Dog, with a grin, "I shall be delighted to have you eat me. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/56/16/) — I'll be out as soon as the porter opens the door." - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/56/17/) — But the "porter" was a huge Dog whom the Wolf knew by painful experience to be very unkind toward wolves. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/56/18/) — So he decided not to wait and made off as fast as his legs could carry him. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/56/19/) — \_Do not depend on the promises of those whose interest it is to deceive you. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/56/20/) — \_ - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/56/21/) — \_Take what you can get when you can get it. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/56/22/) — \_ - ← previous: [The Mice and the Weasels](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/55/) - next →: [The Fox and the Lion](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/57/) - ↑ back to [The Aesop for Children](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/)