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# The Ass and the Grasshoppers

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The Ass and the Grasshoppers of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 11 sentences and 137 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/pg19994/73/1/) — One day as an Ass was walking in the pasture, he found some Grasshoppers chirping merrily in a grassy corner of the field.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/73/2/) — He listened with a great deal of admiration to the song of the Grasshoppers.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/73/3/) — It was such a joyful song that his pleasure-loving heart was filled with a wish to sing as they did.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/73/4/) — "What is it?" he asked very respectfully, "that has given you such beautiful voices?
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/73/5/) — Is there any special food you eat, or is it some divine nectar that makes you sing so wonderfully?"
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/73/6/) — "Yes," said the Grasshoppers, who were very fond of a joke; "it is the dew we drink!
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/73/7/) — Try some and see."
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/73/8/) — So thereafter the Ass would eat nothing and drink nothing but dew.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/73/9/) — Naturally, the poor foolish Ass soon died.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/73/10/) — \_The laws of nature are unchangeable.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/73/11/) — \_

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