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# The Wolf and the Shepherd

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The Wolf and the Shepherd of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 8 sentences and 126 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/pg19994/77/1/) — A Wolf had been prowling around a flock of Sheep for a long time, and the Shepherd watched very anxiously to prevent him from carrying off a Lamb.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/77/2/) — But the Wolf did not try to do any harm.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/77/3/) — Instead he seemed to be helping the Shepherd take care of the Sheep.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/77/4/) — At last the Shepherd got so used to seeing the Wolf about that he forgot how wicked he could be.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/77/5/) — One day he even went so far as to leave his flock in the Wolf's care while he went on an errand.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/77/6/) — But when he came back and saw how many of the flock had been killed and carried off, he knew how foolish to trust a Wolf.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/77/7/) — \_Once a wolf, always a wolf.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/77/8/) — \_

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