--- title: King Alfred and the Cakes. — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · full text with trees description: King Alfred and the Cakes., «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: Many years ago there lived in Eng-land a wise and good king whose name was Al-fred. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/3/) [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/) / King Alfred and the Cakes. # King Alfred and the Cakes. King Alfred and the Cakes. of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin: the whole text, 33 sentences and 537 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/pg18442/3/1/) — Many years ago there lived in Eng-land a wise and good king whose name was Al-fred. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/3/2/) — No other man ever did so much for his country as he; and people now, all over the world, speak of him as Alfred the Great. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/3/3/) — In those days a king did not have a very easy life. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/3/4/) — There was war almost all the time, and no one else could lead his army into battle so well as he. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/3/5/) — And so, between ruling and fighting, he had a busy time of it indeed. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/3/6/) — A fierce, rude people, called the Danes, had come from over the sea, and were fighting the Eng-lish. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/3/7/) — There were so many of them, and they were so bold and strong, that for a long time they gained every battle. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/3/8/) — If they kept on, they would soon be the masters of the whole country. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/3/9/) — At last, after a great battle, the English army was broken up and scat-tered. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/3/10/) — Every man had to save himself in the best way he could. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/3/11/) — King Alfred fled alone, in great haste, through the woods and swamps. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/3/12/) — Late in the day the king came to the hut of a wood-cut-ter. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/3/13/) — He was very tired and hungry, and he begged the wood-cut-ter's wife to give him something to eat and a place to sleep in her hut. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/3/14/) — The wom-an was baking some cakes upon the hearth, and she looked with pity upon the poor, ragged fellow who seemed so hungry. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/3/15/) — She had no thought that he was the king. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/3/16/) — "Yes," she said, "I will give you some supper if you will watch these cakes. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/3/17/) — I want to go out and milk the cow; and you must see that they do not burn while I am gone." - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/3/18/) — King Alfred was very willing to watch the cakes, but he had far greater things to think about. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/3/19/) — How was he going to get his army to-geth-er again? - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/3/20/) — And how was he going to drive the fierce Danes out of the land? - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/3/21/) — He forgot his hunger; he forgot the cakes; he forgot that he was in the woodcutter's hut. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/3/22/) — His mind was busy making plans for to-mor-row. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/3/23/) — In a little while the wom-an came back. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/3/24/) — The cakes were smoking on the hearth. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/3/25/) — They were burned to a crisp. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/3/26/) — Ah, how angry she was! - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/3/27/) — "You lazy fellow!" she cried. " - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/3/28/) — See what you have done! - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/3/29/) — You want some-thing to eat, but you do not want to work!" - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/3/30/) — I have been told that she even struck the king with a stick; but I can hardly be-lieve that she was so ill-na-tured. - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/3/31/) — The king must have laughed to himself at the thought of being scolded in this way; and he was so hungry that he did not mind the woman's angry words half so much as the loss of the cakes. - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/3/32/) — I do not know whether he had any-thing to eat that night, or whether he had to go to bed without his supper. - [33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/3/33/) — But it was not many days until he had gath-ered his men to-geth-er again, and had beaten the Danes in a great battle. - ← previous: [Concerning These Stories.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/2/) - next →: [King Alfred and the Beggar.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/4/) - ↑ back to [Fifty Famous Stories Retold](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/)