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# The Cat and the Birds

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The Cat and the Birds of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 11 sentences and 114 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/pg19994/89/1/) — A Cat was growing very thin.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/89/2/) — As you have guessed, he did not get enough to eat.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/89/3/) — One day he heard that some Birds in the neighborhood were ailing and needed a doctor.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/89/4/) — So he put on a pair of spectacles, and with a leather box in his hand, knocked at the door of the Bird's home.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/89/5/) — The Birds peeped out, and Dr. Cat, with much solicitude, asked how they were.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/89/6/) — He would be very happy to give them some medicine.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/89/7/) — "Tweet, tweet," laughed the Birds. "
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/89/8/) — Very smart, aren't you?
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/89/9/) — We are very well, thank you, and more so, if \_you\_ only keep away from here."
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/89/10/) — \_Be wise and shun the quack.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/89/11/) — \_

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