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title: The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing — The Aesop for Children · full text with trees
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# The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

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The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 9 sentences and 119 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/pg19994/97/1/) — A certain Wolf could not get enough to eat because of the watchfulness of the Shepherds.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/97/2/) — But one night he found a sheep skin that had been cast aside and forgotten.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/97/3/) — The next day, dressed in the skin, the Wolf strolled into the pasture with the Sheep.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/97/4/) — Soon a little Lamb was following him about and was quickly led away to slaughter.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/97/5/) — That evening the Wolf entered the fold with the flock.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/97/6/) — But it happened that the Shepherd took a fancy for mutton broth that very evening, and, picking up a knife, went to the fold.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/97/7/) — There the first he laid hands on and killed was the Wolf.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/97/8/) — \_The evil doer often comes to harm through his own deceit.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/97/9/) — \_

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