--- title: The Ungrateful Soldier. — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · full text with trees description: The Ungrateful Soldier., «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: Here is another story of the bat-tle-field, and it is much like the one which I have just told you. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/18/) [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/) / The Ungrateful Soldier. # The Ungrateful Soldier. The Ungrateful Soldier. of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin: the whole text, 25 sentences and 342 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself; 2 of them are in the tales treebank and were checked by a teacher model. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/18/1/) — Here is another story of the bat-tle-field, and it is much like the one which I have just told you. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/18/2/) — Not quite a hundred years after the time of Sir Philip Sidney there was a war between the Swedes and the Danes. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/18/3/) — One day a great battle was fought, and the Swedes were beaten, and driven from the field. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/18/4/) — A soldier of the Danes who had been slightly wounded was sitting on the ground. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/18/5/) — He was about to take a drink from a flask. — checked by a teacher - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/18/6/) — All at once he heard some one say,-- - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/18/7/) — "O sir! give me a drink, for I am dying." - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/18/8/) — It was a wounded Swede who spoke. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/18/9/) — He was lying on the ground only a little way off. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/18/10/) — The Dane went to him at once. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/18/11/) — He knelt down by the side of his fallen foe, and pressed the flask to his lips. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/18/12/) — "Drink," said he, "for thy need is greater than mine." - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/18/13/) — Hardly had he spoken these words, when the Swede raised himself on his elbow. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/18/14/) — He pulled a pistol from his pocket, and shot at the man who would have be-friend-ed him. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/18/15/) — The bullet grazed the Dane's shoulder, but did not do him much harm. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/18/16/) — "Ah, you rascal!" he cried. " - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/18/17/) — I was going to befriend you, and you repay me by trying to kill me. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/18/18/) — Now I will punish you. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/18/19/) — I would have given you all the water, but now you shall have only half." - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/18/20/) — And with that he drank the half of it, and then gave the rest to the Swede. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/18/21/) — When the King of the Danes heard about this, he sent for the soldier and had him tell the story just as it was. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/18/22/) — "Why did you spare the life of the Swede after he had tried to kill you?" asked the king. — checked by a teacher - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/18/23/) — "Because, sir," said the soldier, "I could never kill a wounded enemy." - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/18/24/) — "Then you deserve to be a no-ble-man," said the king. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/18/25/) — And he re-ward-ed him by making him a knight, and giving him a noble title. - ← previous: [Sir Philip Sidney.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/17/) - next →: [Sir Humphrey Gilbert.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/19/) - ↑ back to [Fifty Famous Stories Retold](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/)