--- title: Socrates and His House. — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · full text with trees description: Socrates and His House., «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: There once lived in Greece a very wise man whose name was Soc'ra-tes. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/40/) [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/) / Socrates and His House. # Socrates and His House. Socrates and His House. of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin: the whole text, 5 sentences and 132 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/pg18442/40/1/) — There once lived in Greece a very wise man whose name was Soc'ra-tes. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/40/2/) — Young men from all parts of the land went to him to learn wisdom from him; and he said so many pleasant things, and said them in so delightful a way, that no one ever grew tired of listening to him. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/40/3/) — One summer he built himself a house, but it was so small that his neighbors wondered how he could be content with it. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/40/4/) — "What is the reason," said they, "that you, who are so great a man, should build such a little box as this for your dwelling house?" - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/40/5/) — "Indeed, there may be little reason," said he; "but, small as the place is, I shall think myself happy if I can fill even it with true friends." - ← previous: [The Brave Three Hundred.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/39/) - next →: [The King and His Hawk.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/) - ↑ back to [Fifty Famous Stories Retold](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/)