--- title: The Farmer and the Cranes — The Aesop for Children · full text with trees description: The Farmer and the Cranes, «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: Some Cranes saw a farmer plowing a large field. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/79/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Aesop for Children](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/) / The Farmer and the Cranes # The Farmer and the Cranes The Farmer and the Cranes of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 21 sentences and 236 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/79/1/) — Some Cranes saw a farmer plowing a large field. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/79/2/) — When the work of plowing was done, they patiently watched him sow the seed. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/79/3/) — It was their feast, they thought. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/79/4/) — So, as soon as the Farmer had finished planting and had gone home, down they flew to the field, and began to eat as fast as they could. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/79/5/) — The Farmer, of course, knew the Cranes and their ways. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/79/6/) — He had had experience with such birds before. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/79/7/) — He soon returned to the field with a sling. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/79/8/) — But he did not bring any stones with him. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/79/9/) — He expected to scare the Cranes just by swinging the sling in the air, and shouting loudly at them. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/79/10/) — At first the Cranes flew away in great terror. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/79/11/) — But they soon began to see that none of them ever got hurt. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/79/12/) — They did not even hear the noise of stones whizzing through the air, and as for words, they would kill nobody. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/79/13/) — At last they paid no attention whatever to the Farmer. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/79/14/) — The Farmer saw that he would have to take other measures. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/79/15/) — He wanted to save at least some of his grain. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/79/16/) — So he loaded his sling with stones and killed several of the Cranes. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/79/17/) — This had the effect the Farmer wanted, for from that day the Cranes visited his field no more. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/79/18/) — \_Bluff and threatening words are of little value with rascals. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/79/19/) — \_ - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/79/20/) — \_Bluff is no proof that hard fists are lacking. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/79/21/) — \_ - ← previous: [The Peacock and the Crane](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/78/) - next →: [The Farmer and His Sons](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/80/) - ↑ back to [The Aesop for Children](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/)