Socrates and His House. Socrates and His House. of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin: the whole text, 5 sentences and 132 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself.
1 There once lived in Greece a very wise man whose name was Soc'ra-tes. 2 Young men from all parts of the land went to him to learn wisdom from him; and he said so many pleasant things, and said them in so delightful a way, that no one ever grew tired of listening to him. 3 One summer he built himself a house, but it was so small that his neighbors wondered how he could be content with it. 4 "What is the reason," said they, "that you, who are so great a man, should build such a little box as this for your dwelling house?" 5 "Indeed, there may be little reason," said he; "but, small as the place is, I shall think myself happy if I can fill even it with true friends." ← previous The Brave Three Hundred.next → The King and His Hawk.↑ back to Fifty Famous Stories Retold This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/40/