The Ass and Its Shadow The Ass and Its Shadow of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 9 sentences and 167 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself.
1 A Traveler had hired an Ass to carry him to a distant part of the country. 2 The owner of the Ass went with the Traveler, walking beside him to drive the Ass and point out the way. 3 The road led across a treeless plain where the Sun beat down fiercely. 4 So intense did the heat become, that the Traveler at last decided to stop for a rest, and as there was no other shade to be found, the Traveler sat down in the shadow of the Ass. 5 Now the heat had affected the Driver as much as it had the Traveler, and even more, for he had been walking. 6 Wishing also to rest in the shade cast by the Ass, he began to quarrel with the Traveler, saying he had hired the Ass and not the shadow it cast. 7 The two soon came to blows, and while they were fighting, the Ass took to its heels. 8 _In quarreling about the shadow we often lose the substance. 9 _ ← previous The Fox and the Crownext → The Miller, His Son, and the Ass↑ back to The Aesop for Children This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/133/