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# The Eagle and the Jackdaw

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The Eagle and the Jackdaw of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 13 sentences and 188 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/pg19994/9/1/) — An Eagle, swooping down on powerful wings, seized a lamb in her talons and made off with it to her nest.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/9/2/) — A Jackdaw saw the deed, and his silly head was filled with the idea that he was big and strong enough to do as the Eagle had done.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/9/3/) — So with much rustling of feathers and a fierce air, he came down swiftly on the back of a large Ram.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/9/4/) — But when he tried to rise again he found that he could not get away, for his claws were tangled in the wool.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/9/5/) — And so far was he from carrying away the Ram, that the Ram hardly noticed he was there.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/9/6/) — The Shepherd saw the fluttering Jackdaw and at once guessed what had happened.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/9/7/) — Running up, he caught the bird and clipped its wings.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/9/8/) — That evening he gave the Jackdaw to his children.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/9/9/) — "What a funny bird this is!" they said laughing, "what do you call it, father?"
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/9/10/) — "That is a Jackdaw, my children.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/9/11/) — But if you should ask him, \_he\_ would say he is an Eagle."
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/9/12/) — \_Do not let your vanity make you overestimate your powers.
- [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/9/13/) — \_

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