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Aesop's Fable # 3: The Buffoon and the Countryman
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     \-\{At a country fair} there was a Buffoon [RAJFwho made all the people laugh*INFDO11 {by imitating*GerOP06 the cries} {of various animals.}]  \-\He finished off {by squeaking*GerOP17} so {like a pig} [RAVFthat the spectators thought [RNDOthat he had a porker concealed#ADO05 {about him.}]]  \-\But a Countryman [MAJFwho stood by] said: [RNDO"Call that*INFDE04 a pigs squeak!]  \F\Nothing {like it.}  \-\You give me {till tomorrow} \C\and I will show you [RNDOwhat it's like." \-\The audience laughed, \C\but next day,#NuA02 sure enough,#Inj02 the Countryman appeared {on the stage,} and putting*GiveM04 his head down squealed=CV so hideously [RAVFthat the spectators hissed and threw=CV stones {at him} to make*INFAV04 him stop.*INFDO02] \-\"You fools!"#DrA02 [MINJhe cried,] "see [RNDOwhat you have been hissing,"] and held up=CV#1 a little pig [RAJFwhose ear he had been pinching to make*INFAV06 him utter*INFDO04 the squeals.]
     \-\Men often applaud an imitation and hiss=CV the real thing.

 

Notes

1. The complexity of the structure of this sentence goes beyond the reach of the KISS analysis program. Note that, if we don't consider "he cried" as an interjection, and if we rearrange the sentence, we have ""He cried [RNDO"You fools! See what you have been hissing,"] and held up=CV a little pig . . . ."