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# The Frogs and the Ox

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The Frogs and the Ox of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 12 sentences and 136 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/pg19994/6/1/) — An Ox came down to a reedy pool to drink.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/6/2/) — As he splashed heavily into the water, he crushed a young Frog into the mud.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/6/3/) — The old Frog soon missed the little one and asked his brothers and sisters what had become of him.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/6/4/) — "A \_great big\_ monster," said one of them, "stepped on little brother with one of his huge feet!"
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/6/5/) — "Big, was he!" said the old Frog, puffing herself up. "
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/6/6/) — Was he as big as this?"
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/6/7/) — "Oh, \_much\_ bigger!" they cried.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/6/8/) — The Frog puffed up still more.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/6/9/) — "He could not have been bigger than this," she said.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/6/10/) — But the little Frogs all declared that the monster was \_much, much\_ bigger and the old Frog kept puffing herself out more and more until, all at once, she burst.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/6/11/) — \_Do not attempt the impossible.
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/6/12/) — \_

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