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# The Astrologer

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The Astrologer of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 13 sentences and 210 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/pg19994/91/1/) — A man who lived a long time ago believed that he could read the future in the stars.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/91/2/) — He called himself an Astrologer, and spent his time at night gazing at the sky.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/91/3/) — One evening he was walking along the open road outside the village.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/91/4/) — His eyes were fixed on the stars.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/91/5/) — He thought he saw there that the end of the world was at hand, when all at once, down he went into a hole full of mud and water.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/91/6/) — There he stood up to his ears, in the muddy water, and madly clawing at the slippery sides of the hole in his effort to climb out.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/91/7/) — His cries for help soon brought the villagers running.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/91/8/) — As they pulled him out of the mud, one of them said:
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/91/9/) — "You pretend to read the future in the stars, and yet you fail to see what is at your feet!
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/91/10/) — This may teach you to pay more attention to what is right in front of you, and let the future take care of itself."
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/91/11/) — "What use is it," said another, "to read the stars, when you can't see what's right here on the earth?"
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/91/12/) — \_Take care of the little things and the big things will take care of themselves.
- [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/91/13/) — \_

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