--- title: II. the Three Answers. — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · full text with trees description: II. the Three Answers., «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: As the abbot was riding up the lane which led to his grand house, he met his shep-herd going to the fields. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fifty Famous Stories Retold](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/) / II. the Three Answers. # II. the Three Answers. II. the Three Answers. of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin: the whole text, 49 sentences and 665 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/10/1/) — As the abbot was riding up the lane which led to his grand house, he met his shep-herd going to the fields. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/10/2/) — "Welcome home, good master!" cried the shepherd. " - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/10/3/) — What news do you bring us from great King John?" - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/10/4/) — "Sad news, sad news," said the abbot; and then he told him all that had happened. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/10/5/) — "Cheer up, cheer up, good master," said the shepherd. " - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/10/6/) — Have you never yet heard that a fool may teach a wise man wit? - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/10/7/) — I think I can help you out of your trouble." - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/10/8/) — "You help me!" cried the abbot "How? how?" - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/10/9/) — "Well," answered the shepherd, "you know that everybody says that I look just like you, and that I have some-times been mis-tak-en for you. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/10/10/) — So, lend me your servants and your horse and your gown, and I will go up to London and see the king. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/10/11/) — If nothing else can be done, I can at least die in your place." - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/10/12/) — "My good shepherd," said the abbot, "you are very, very kind; and I have a mind to let you try your plan. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/10/13/) — But if the worst comes to the worst, you shall not die for me. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/10/14/) — I will die for myself." - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/10/15/) — So the shepherd got ready to go at once. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/10/16/) — He dressed himself with great care. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/10/17/) — Over his shepherd's coat he threw the abbot's long gown, and he bor-rowed the abbot's cap and golden staff. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/10/18/) — When all was ready, no one in the world would have thought that he was not the great man himself. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/10/19/) — Then he mounted his horse, and with a great train of servants set out for London. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/10/20/) — Of course the king did not know him. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/10/21/) — "Welcome, Sir Abbot!" he said. " - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/10/22/) — It is a good thing that you have come back. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/10/23/) — But, prompt as you are, if you fail to answer my three questions, you shall lose your head." - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/10/24/) — "I am ready to answer them, O king!" said the shepherd. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/10/25/) — "Indeed, indeed!" said the king, and he laughed to himself. " - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/10/26/) — Well, then, answer my first question: How long shall I live? - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/10/27/) — Come, you must tell me to the very day." - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/10/28/) — "You shall live," said the shepherd, "until the day that you die, and not one day longer. - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/10/29/) — And you shall die when you take your last breath, and not one moment before." - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/10/30/) — The king laughed. - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/10/31/) — "You are witty, I see," he said. " - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/10/32/) — But we will let that pass, and say that your answer is right. - [33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/10/33/) — And now tell me how soon I may ride round the world." - [34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/10/34/) — "You must rise with the sun," said the shepherd, "and you must ride with the sun until it rises again the next morning. - [35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/10/35/) — As soon as you do that, you will find that you have ridden round the world in twenty-four hours." - [36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/10/36/) — The king laughed again. " - [37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/10/37/) — Indeed," he said, "I did not think that it could be done so soon. - [38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/10/38/) — You are not only witty, but you are wise, and we will let this answer pass. - [39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/10/39/) — And now comes my third and last question: What do I think?" - [40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/10/40/) — "That is an easy question," said the shepherd. " - [41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/10/41/) — You think that I am the Abbot of Can-ter-bur-y. - [42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/10/42/) — But, to tell you the truth, I am only his poor shepherd, and I have come to beg your pardon for him and for me." - [43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/10/43/) — And with that, he threw off his long gown. - [44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/10/44/) — The king laughed loud and long. - [45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/10/45/) — "A merry fellow you are," said he, "and you shall be the Abbot of Canterbury in your master's place." - [46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/10/46/) — "O king! that cannot be," said the shepherd; "for I can neither read nor write." - [47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/10/47/) — "Very well, then," said the king, "I will give you something else to pay you for this merry joke. - [48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/10/48/) — I will give you four pieces of silver every week as long as you live. - [49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/10/49/) — And when you get home, you may tell the old abbot that you have brought him a free pardon from King John." - ← previous: [I. the Three Questions.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/9/) - next →: [A Story of Robin Hood.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/11/) - ↑ back to [Fifty Famous Stories Retold](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/)