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title: Opening — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · full text with trees
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# Opening

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Opening of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin: the whole text, 59 sentences and 213 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself.

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- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/1/1/) — Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/1/2/) — FIFTY FAMOUS STORIES RETOLD
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/1/3/) — BY
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/1/4/) — JAMES BALDWIN
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/1/5/) — AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/1/6/) — NEW YORK CINCINNATI CHICAGO
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/1/7/) — COPYRIGHT, 1896, BY
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/1/8/) — AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/1/9/) — CONTENTS.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/1/10/) — King Alfred and the Cakes
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/1/11/) — King Alfred and the Beggar
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/1/12/) — King Canute on the Seashore
- [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/1/13/) — The Sons of William the Conqueror
- [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/1/14/) — The White Ship
- [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/1/15/) — King John and the Abbot
- [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/1/16/) — A Story of Robin Hood
- [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/1/17/) — Bruce and the Spider
- [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/1/18/) — The Black Douglas
- [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/1/19/) — Three Men of Gotham
- [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/1/20/) — Other Wise Men of Gotham
- [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/1/21/) — The Miller of the Dee
- [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/1/22/) — Sir Philip Sidney
- [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/1/23/) — The Ungrateful Soldier
- [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/1/24/) — Sir Humphrey Gilbert
- [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/1/25/) — Sir Walter Raleigh
- [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/1/26/) — Pocahontas
- [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/1/27/) — George Washington and his Hatchet
- [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/1/28/) — Grace Darling
- [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/1/29/) — The Story of William Tell
- [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/1/30/) — Arnold Winkelried
- [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/1/31/) — The Bell of Atri
- [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/1/32/) — How Napoleon crossed the Alps
- [33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/1/33/) — The Story of Cincinnatus
- [34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/1/34/) — The Story of Regulus
- [35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/1/35/) — Cornelia's Jewels
- [36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/1/36/) — Androclus and the Lion
- [37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/1/37/) — Horatius at the Bridge
- [38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/1/38/) — Julius Caesar
- [39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/1/39/) — The Sword of Damocles
- [40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/1/40/) — Damon and Pythias
- [41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/1/41/) — A Laconic Answer
- [42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/1/42/) — The Ungrateful Guest
- [43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/1/43/) — Alexander and Bucephalus
- [44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/1/44/) — Diogenes the Wise Man
- [45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/1/45/) — The Brave Three Hundred
- [46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/1/46/) — Socrates and his House
- [47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/1/47/) — The King and his Hawk
- [48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/1/48/) — Doctor Goldsmith
- [49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/1/49/) — The Kingdoms
- [50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/1/50/) — The Barmecide Feast
- [51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/1/51/) — The Endless Tale
- [52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/1/52/) — The Blind Men and the Elephant
- [53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/1/53/) — Maximilian and the Goose Boy
- [54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/1/54/) — The Inchcape Rock
- [55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/1/55/) — Whittington and his Cat
- [56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/1/56/) — Casabianca
- [57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/1/57/) — Antonio Canova
- [58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/1/58/) — Picciola
- [59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/1/59/) — Mignon

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