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# The Old Dog

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The Old Dog of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales»: the whole text, 14 sentences and 294 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/pg29672/12/1/) — There was once a man who had a dog.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/12/2/) — While the dog was young he was made much of, but when he grew old he was driven out of doors.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/12/3/) — So he went and lay outside the fence, and a wolf came up to him and said, "Doggy, why so down in the mouth?"--"While I was young," said the dog, "they made much of me; but now that I am old they beat me."
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/12/4/) — The wolf said, "I see thy master in the field; go after him, and perchance he'll give thee something."--"Nay," said the dog, "they won't even let me walk about the fields now, they only beat me."--"Look now," said the wolf, "I'm sorry, and will make things better for thee.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/12/5/) — Thy mistress, I see, has put her child down beneath that wagon.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/12/6/) — I'll seize it, and make off with it.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/12/7/) — Run thou after me and bark, and though thou hast no teeth left, touzle me as much as thou canst, so that thy mistress may see it."
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/12/8/) — So the wolf seized the child, and ran away with it, and the dog ran after him, and began to touzle him.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/12/9/) — His mistress saw it, and made after them with a harrow, crying at the same time, "Husband, husband! the wolf has got the child!
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/12/10/) — Gabriel, Gabriel! don't you see?
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/12/11/) — The wolf has got the child!"
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/12/12/) — Then the man chased the wolf, and got back the child. "
- [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/12/13/) — Brave old dog!" said he; "you are old and toothless, and yet you can give help in time of need, and will not let your master's child be stolen."
- [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/12/14/) — And henceforth the woman and her husband gave the old dog a large lump of bread every day.

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