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title: The Fox and the Goat — The Aesop for Children · full text with trees
description: The Fox and the Goat, «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: A Fox fell into a well, and though it was not very deep, he found that he could not get out again.
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# The Fox and the Goat

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The Fox and the Goat of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 12 sentences and 185 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself; 1 of them are in the tales treebank and were checked by a teacher model.

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- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/75/1/) — A Fox fell into a well, and though it was not very deep, he found that he could not get out again.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/75/2/) — After he had been in the well a long time, a thirsty Goat came by. — checked by a teacher
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/75/3/) — The Goat thought the Fox had gone down to drink, and so he asked if the water was good.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/75/4/) — "The finest in the whole country," said the crafty Fox, "jump in and try it.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/75/5/) — There is more than enough for both of us."
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/75/6/) — The thirsty Goat immediately jumped in and began to drink.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/75/7/) — The Fox just as quickly jumped on the Goat's back and leaped from the tip of the Goat's horns out of the well.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/75/8/) — The foolish Goat now saw what a plight he had got into, and begged the Fox to help him out.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/75/9/) — But the Fox was already on his way to the woods.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/75/10/) — "If you had as much sense as you have beard, old fellow," he said as he ran, "you would have been more cautious about finding a way to get out again before you jumped in."
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/75/11/) — \_Look before you leap.
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/75/12/) — \_

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