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title: The Wolf and the Goat — The Aesop for Children · full text with trees
description: The Wolf and the Goat, «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: A hungry Wolf spied a Goat browsing at the top of a steep cliff where he could not possibly get at her.
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# The Wolf and the Goat

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The Wolf and the Goat of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 11 sentences and 122 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/pg19994/72/1/) — A hungry Wolf spied a Goat browsing at the top of a steep cliff where he could not possibly get at her.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/72/2/) — "That is a very dangerous place for you," he called out, pretending to be very anxious about the Goat's safety. "
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/72/3/) — What if you should fall!
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/72/4/) — Please listen to me and come down!
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/72/5/) — Here you can get all you want of the finest, tenderest grass in the country."
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/72/6/) — The Goat looked over the edge of the cliff.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/72/7/) — "How very, very anxious you are about me," she said, "and how generous you are with your grass!
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/72/8/) — But I know you!
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/72/9/) — It's your \_own\_ appetite you are thinking of, not mine!"
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/72/10/) — \_An invitation prompted by selfishness is not to be accepted.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/72/11/) — \_

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