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# The Vain Jackdaw and His Borrowed Feathers

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The Vain Jackdaw and His Borrowed Feathers of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 14 sentences and 186 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/pg19994/60/1/) — A Jackdaw chanced to fly over the garden of the King's palace.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/60/2/) — There he saw with much wonder and envy a flock of royal Peacocks in all the glory of their splendid plumage.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/60/3/) — Now the black Jackdaw was not a very handsome bird, nor very refined in manner.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/60/4/) — Yet he imagined that all he needed to make himself fit for the society of the Peacocks was a dress like theirs.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/60/5/) — So he picked up some castoff feathers of the Peacocks and stuck them among his own black plumes.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/60/6/) — Dressed in his borrowed finery he strutted loftily among the birds of his own kind.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/60/7/) — Then he flew down into the garden among the Peacocks.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/60/8/) — But they soon saw who he was.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/60/9/) — Angry at the cheat, they flew at him, plucking away the borrowed feathers and also some of his own.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/60/10/) — The poor Jackdaw returned sadly to his former companions.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/60/11/) — There another unpleasant surprise awaited him.
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/60/12/) — They had not forgotten his superior airs toward them, and, to punish him, they drove him away with a rain of pecks and jeers.
- [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/60/13/) — \_Borrowed feathers do not make fine birds.
- [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/60/14/) — \_

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