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# The Spendthrift and the Swallow

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The Spendthrift and the Swallow of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 7 sentences and 159 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/pg19994/88/1/) — A young fellow, who was very popular among his boon companions as a good spender, quickly wasted his fortune trying to live up to his reputation.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/88/2/) — Then one fine day in early spring he found himself with not a penny left, and no property save the clothes he wore.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/88/3/) — He was to meet some jolly young men that morning, and he was at his wits' end how to get enough money to keep up appearances.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/88/4/) — Just then a Swallow flew by, twittering merrily, and the young man, thinking summer had come, hastened off to a clothes dealer, to whom he sold all the clothes he wore down to his very tunic.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/88/5/) — A few days later a change in weather brought a severe frost; and the poor swallow and that foolish young man in his light tunic, and with his arms and knees bare, could scarcely keep life in their shivering bodies.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/88/6/) — \_One swallow does not make a summer.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/88/7/) — \_

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