--- title: The King and His Hawk. — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · full text with trees description: The King and His Hawk., «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: Gen'ghis Khan was a great king and war-rior. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/) [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 King and His Hawk. # The King and His Hawk. The King and His Hawk. of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin: the whole text, 73 sentences and 880 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/pg18442/41/1/) — Gen'ghis Khan was a great king and war-rior. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/2/) — He led his army into China and Persia, and he con-quered many lands. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/3/) — In every country, men told about his daring deeds; and they said that since Alexander the Great there had been no king like him. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/4/) — One morning when he was home from the wars, he rode out into the woods to have a day's sport. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/5/) — Many of his friends were with him. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/6/) — They rode out gayly, carrying their bows and arrows. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/7/) — Behind them came the servants with the hounds. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/8/) — It was a merry hunting party. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/9/) — The woods rang with their shouts and laughter. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/10/) — They expected to carry much game home in the evening. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/11/) — On the king's wrist sat his favorite hawk; for in those days hawks were trained to hunt. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/12/) — At a word from their masters they would fly high up into the air, and look around for prey. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/13/) — If they chanced to see a deer or a rabbit, they would swoop down upon it swift as any arrow. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/14/) — All day long Gen-ghis Khan and his huntsmen rode through the woods. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/15/) — But they did not find as much game as they expected. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/16/) — Toward evening they started for home. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/17/) — The king had often ridden through the woods, and he knew all the paths. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/18/) — So while the rest of the party took the nearest way, he went by a longer road through a valley between two mountains. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/19/) — The day had been warm, and the king was very thirsty. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/20/) — His pet hawk had left his wrist and flown away. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/21/) — It would be sure to find its way home. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/22/) — The king rode slowly along. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/23/) — He had once seen a spring of clear water near this path-way. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/24/) — If he could only find it now! - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/25/) — But the hot days of summer had dried up all the moun-tain brooks. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/26/) — At last, to his joy, he saw some water tric-kling down over the edge of a rock. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/27/) — He knew that there was a spring farther up. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/28/) — In the wet season, a swift stream of water always poured down here; but now it came only one drop at a time. - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/29/) — The king leaped from his horse. - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/30/) — He took a little silver cup from his hunting bag. - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/31/) — He held it so as to catch the slowly falling drops. - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/32/) — It took a long time to fill the cup; and the king was so thirsty that he could hardly wait. - [33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/33/) — At last it was nearly full. - [34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/34/) — He put the cup to his lips, and was about to drink. - [35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/35/) — All at once there was a whir-ring sound in the air, and the cup was knocked from his hands. - [36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/36/) — The water was all spilled upon the ground. - [37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/37/) — The king looked up to see who had done this thing. — checked by a teacher - [38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/38/) — It was his pet hawk. - [39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/39/) — The hawk flew back and forth a few times, and then alighted among the rocks by the spring. - [40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/40/) — The king picked up the cup, and again held it to catch the tric-kling drops. - [41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/41/) — This time he did not wait so long. - [42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/42/) — When the cup was half full, he lifted it toward his mouth. - [43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/43/) — But before it had touched his lips, the hawk swooped down again, and knocked it from his hands. - [44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/44/) — And now the king began to grow angry. - [45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/45/) — He tried again; and for the third time the hawk kept him from drinking. - [46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/46/) — The king was now very angry indeed. - [47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/47/) — "How do you dare to act so?" he cried. " - [48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/48/) — If I had you in my hands, I would wring your neck!" - [49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/49/) — Then he filled the cup again. - [50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/50/) — But before he tried to drink, he drew his sword. - [51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/51/) — "Now, Sir Hawk," he said, "this is the last time." - [52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/52/) — He had hardly spoken, before the hawk swooped down and knocked the cup from his hand. - [53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/53/) — But the king was looking for this. - [54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/54/) — With a quick sweep of the sword he struck the bird as it passed. - [55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/55/) — The next moment the poor hawk lay bleeding and dying at its master's feet. - [56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/56/) — "That is what you get for your pains," said Genghis Khan. - [57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/57/) — But when he looked for his cup, he found that it had fallen between two rocks, where he could not reach it. - [58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/58/) — "At any rate, I will have a drink from that spring," he said to himself. - [59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/59/) — With that he began to climb the steep bank to the place from which the water trickled. - [60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/60/) — It was hard work, and the higher he climbed, the thirst-i-er he became. - [61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/61/) — At last he reached the place. - [62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/62/) — There indeed was a pool of water; but what was that lying in the pool, and almost filling it? - [63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/63/) — It was a huge, dead snake of the most poi-son-ous kind. - [64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/64/) — The king stopped. - [65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/65/) — He forgot his thirst. - [66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/66/) — He thought only of the poor dead bird lying on the ground below him. - [67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/67/) — "The hawk saved my life!" he cried; "and how did I repay him? - [68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/68/) — He was my best friend, and I have killed him." - [69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/69/) — He clam-bered down the bank. - [70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/70/) — He took the bird up gently, and laid it in his hunting bag. - [71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/71/) — Then he mounted his horse and rode swiftly home. - [72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/72/) — He said to himself,-- - [73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/73/) — "I have learned a sad lesson to-day; and that is, never to do any-thing in anger." - ← previous: [Socrates and His House.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/40/) - next →: [Doctor Goldsmith.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/42/) - ↑ back to [Fifty Famous Stories Retold](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/)