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# The Peacock and the Crane

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The Peacock and the Crane of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 9 sentences and 105 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/pg19994/78/1/) — A Peacock, puffed up with vanity, met a Crane one day, and to impress him spread his gorgeous tail in the Sun.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/78/2/) — "Look," he said. "
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/78/3/) — What have you to compare with this?
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/78/4/) — I am dressed in all the glory of the rainbow, while your feathers are gray as dust!"
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/78/5/) — The Crane spread his broad wings and flew up toward the sun.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/78/6/) — "Follow me if you can," he said.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/78/7/) — But the Peacock stood where he was among the birds of the barnyard, while the Crane soared in freedom far up into the blue sky.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/78/8/) — \_The useful is of much more importance and value, than the ornamental.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/78/9/) — \_

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