--- title: Arnold Winkelried. — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · full text with trees description: Arnold Winkelried., «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: A great army was marching into Swit-zer-land. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/24/) [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/) / Arnold Winkelried. # Arnold Winkelried. Arnold Winkelried. of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin: the whole text, 40 sentences and 490 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself; 1 of them are in the tales treebank and were checked by a teacher model. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/24/1/) — A great army was marching into Swit-zer-land. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/24/2/) — If it should go much farther, there would be no driving it out again. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/24/3/) — The soldiers would burn the towns, they would rob the farmers of their grain and sheep, they would make slaves of the people. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/24/4/) — The men of Switzerland knew all this. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/24/5/) — They knew that they must fight for their homes and their lives. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/24/6/) — And so they came from the mountains and valleys to try what they could do to save their land. — checked by a teacher - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/24/7/) — Some came with bows and arrows, some with scythes and pitch-forks, and some with only sticks and clubs. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/24/8/) — But their foes kept in line as they marched along the road. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/24/9/) — Every soldier was fully armed. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/24/10/) — As they moved and kept close together, nothing could be seen of them but their spears and shields and shining armor. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/24/11/) — What could the poor country people do against such foes as these? - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/24/12/) — "We must break their lines," cried their leader; "for we cannot harm them while they keep together." - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/24/13/) — The bowmen shot their arrows, but they glanced off from the soldiers' shields. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/24/14/) — Others tried clubs and stones, but with no better luck. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/24/15/) — The lines were still un-bro-ken. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/24/16/) — The soldiers moved stead-i-ly onward; their shields lapped over one another; their thousand spears looked like so many long bris-tles in the sun-light. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/24/17/) — What cared they for sticks and stones and hunts-men's arrows? - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/24/18/) — "If we cannot break their ranks," said the Swiss, "we have no chance for fight, and our country will be lost!" - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/24/19/) — Then a poor man, whose name was Ar-nold Wink'el-ried, stepped out. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/24/20/) — "On the side of yonder moun-tain," said he, "I have a happy home. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/24/21/) — There my wife and chil-dren wait for my return. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/24/22/) — But they will not see me again, for this day I will give my life for my country. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/24/23/) — And do you, my friends, do your duty, and Switzerland shall be free." - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/24/24/) — With these words he ran forward. " - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/24/25/) — Follow me!" he cried to his friends. " - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/24/26/) — I will break the lines, and then let every man fight as bravely as he can." - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/24/27/) — He had nothing in his hands, neither club nor stone nor other weapon. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/24/28/) — But he ran straight on-ward to the place where the spears were thickest. - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/24/29/) — "Make way for lib-er-ty!" he cried, as he dashed right into the lines. - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/24/30/) — A hundred spears were turned to catch him upon their points. - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/24/31/) — The soldiers forgot to stay in their places. - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/24/32/) — The lines were broken. - [33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/24/33/) — Arnold's friends rushed bravely after him. - [34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/24/34/) — They fought with whatever they had in hand. - [35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/24/35/) — They snatched spears and shields from their foes. - [36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/24/36/) — They had no thought of fear. - [37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/24/37/) — They only thought of their homes and their dear native land. - [38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/24/38/) — And they won at last. - [39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/24/39/) — Such a battle no one ever knew before. - [40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/24/40/) — But Switzerland was saved, and Arnold Wink-el-ried did not die in vain. - ← previous: [The Story of William Tell.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/23/) - next →: [The Bell of Atri.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/25/) - ↑ back to [Fifty Famous Stories Retold](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/)