--- title: The Fox and the Crab — The Aesop for Children · full text with trees description: The Fox and the Crab, «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: A Crab one day grew disgusted with the sands in which he lived. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/95/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Aesop for Children](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/) / The Fox and the Crab # The Fox and the Crab The Fox and the Crab of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 7 sentences and 67 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/95/1/) — A Crab one day grew disgusted with the sands in which he lived. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/95/2/) — He decided to take a stroll to the meadow not far inland. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/95/3/) — There he would find better fare than briny water and sand mites. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/95/4/) — So off he crawled to the meadow. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/95/5/) — But there a hungry Fox spied him, and in a twinkling, ate him up, both shell and claw. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/95/6/) — \_Be content with your lot. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/95/7/) — \_ - ← previous: [The Frog and the Mouse](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/94/) - next →: [The Serpent and the Eagle](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/96/) - ↑ back to [The Aesop for Children](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/)