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# The Dog and His Master's Dinner

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The Dog and His Master's Dinner of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 13 sentences and 146 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/pg19994/59/1/) — A Dog had learned to carry his master's dinner to him every day.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/59/2/) — He was very faithful to his duty, though the smell of the good things in the basket tempted him.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/59/3/) — The Dogs in the neighborhood noticed him carrying the basket and soon discovered what was in it.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/59/4/) — They made several attempts to steal it from him.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/59/5/) — But he always guarded it faithfully.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/59/6/) — Then one day all the Dogs in the neighborhood got together and met him on his way with the basket.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/59/7/) — The Dog tried to run away from them.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/59/8/) — But at last he stopped to argue.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/59/9/) — That was his mistake.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/59/10/) — They soon made him feel so ridiculous that he dropped the basket and seized a large piece of roast meat intended for his master's dinner.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/59/11/) — "Very well," he said, "you divide the rest."
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/59/12/) — \_Do not stop to argue with temptation.
- [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/59/13/) — \_

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