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# The Dog and the Oyster

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The Dog and the Oyster of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 9 sentences and 96 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/pg19994/90/1/) — There was once a Dog who was very fond of eggs.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/90/2/) — He visited the hen house very often and at last got so greedy that he would swallow the eggs whole.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/90/3/) — One day the Dog wandered down to the seashore.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/90/4/) — There he spied an Oyster.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/90/5/) — In a twinkling the Oyster was resting in the Dog's stomach, shell and all.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/90/6/) — It pained the Dog a good deal, as you can guess.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/90/7/) — "I've learned that all round things are not eggs," he said groaning.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/90/8/) — \_Act in haste and repent at leisure--and often in pain.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/90/9/) — \_

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