The Man and the Lion The Man and the Lion of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 10 sentences and 124 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself; 1 of them are in the tales treebank and were checked by a teacher model.
1 A Lion and a Man chanced to travel in company through the forest. 2 They soon began to quarrel, for each of them boasted that he and his kind were far superior to the other both in strength and mind. 3 Now they reached a clearing in the forest and there stood a statue. 4 It was a representation of Heracles in the act of tearing the jaws of the Nemean Lion. checked by a teacher 5 "See," said the man, "that's how strong _we_ are! 6 The King of Beasts is like wax in our hands!" 7 "Ho!" laughed the Lion, "a Man made that statue. 8 It would have been quite a different scene had a Lion made it!" 9 _It all depends on the point of view, and who tells the story. 10 _ ← previous The Old Lion and the Foxnext → The Ass and the Lap Dog↑ back to The Aesop for Children This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/101/