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title: The Heron — The Aesop for Children · full text with trees
description: The Heron, «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: A Heron was walking sedately along the bank of a stream, his eyes on the clear water, and his long neck and pointed bill ready to snap up a likely morsel for his breakf
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# The Heron

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The Heron of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 11 sentences and 155 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/pg19994/69/1/) — A Heron was walking sedately along the bank of a stream, his eyes on the clear water, and his long neck and pointed bill ready to snap up a likely morsel for his breakfast.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/69/2/) — The clear water swarmed with fish, but Master Heron was hard to please that morning.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/69/3/) — "No small fry for me," he said. "
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/69/4/) — Such scanty fare is not fit for a Heron."
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/69/5/) — Now a fine young Perch swam near.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/69/6/) — "No indeed," said the Heron. "
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/69/7/) — I wouldn't even trouble to open my beak for anything like that!"
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/69/8/) — As the sun rose, the fish left the shallow water near the shore and swam below into the cool depths toward the middle.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/69/9/) — The Heron saw no more fish, and very glad was he at last to breakfast on a tiny Snail.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/69/10/) — \_Do not be too hard to suit or you may have to be content with the worst or with nothing at all.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/69/11/) — \_

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