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# The Mouse and the Weasel

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The Mouse and the Weasel of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 18 sentences and 193 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/pg19994/84/1/) — A little hungry Mouse found his way one day into a basket of corn.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/84/2/) — He had to squeeze himself a good deal to get through the narrow opening between the strips of the basket. — checked by a teacher
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/84/3/) — But the corn was tempting and the Mouse was determined to get in.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/84/4/) — When at last he had succeeded, he gorged himself to bursting.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/84/5/) — Indeed he became about three times as big around the middle as he was when he went in.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/84/6/) — At last he felt satisfied and dragged himself to the opening to get out again.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/84/7/) — But the best he could do was to get his head out.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/84/8/) — So there he sat groaning and moaning, both from the discomfort inside him and his anxiety to escape from the basket.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/84/9/) — Just then a Weasel came by.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/84/10/) — He understood the situation quickly.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/84/11/) — "My friend," he said, "I know what you've been doing.
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/84/12/) — You've been stuffing.
- [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/84/13/) — That's what you get.
- [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/84/14/) — You will have to stay there till you feel just like you did when you went in.
- [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/84/15/) — Good night, and good enough for you."
- [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/84/16/) — And that was all the sympathy the poor Mouse got.
- [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/84/17/) — \_Greediness leads to misfortune.
- [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/84/18/) — \_

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