The Plane Tree The Plane Tree of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 9 sentences and 96 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself.
1 Two Travellers, walking in the noonday sun, sought the shade of a widespreading tree to rest. 2 As they lay looking up among the pleasant leaves, they saw that it was a Plane Tree. 3 "How useless is the Plane!" said one of them. " 4 It bears no fruit whatever, and only serves to litter the ground with leaves." 5 "Ungrateful creatures!" said a voice from the Plane Tree. " 6 You lie here in my cooling shade, and yet you say I am useless! 7 Thus ungratefully, O Jupiter, do men receive their blessings!" 8 _Our best blessings are often the least appreciated. 9 _ ← previous The Gnat and the Bullnext → The Farmer and the Stork↑ back to The Aesop for Children This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/22/