--- title: Doctor Goldsmith. — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · full text with trees description: Doctor Goldsmith., «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: There was once a kind man whose name was Oliver Gold-smith. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/42/) [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/) / Doctor Goldsmith. # Doctor Goldsmith. Doctor Goldsmith. of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin: the whole text, 24 sentences and 305 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/pg18442/42/1/) — There was once a kind man whose name was Oliver Gold-smith. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/42/2/) — He wrote many de-light-ful books, some of which you will read when you are older. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/42/3/) — He had a gentle heart. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/42/4/) — He was always ready to help others and to share with them anything that he had. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/42/5/) — He gave away so much to the poor that he was always poor himself. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/42/6/) — He was some-times called Doctor Goldsmith; for he had studied to be a phy-si-cian. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/42/7/) — One day a poor woman asked Doctor Goldsmith to go and see her husband, who was sick and could not eat. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/42/8/) — Goldsmith did so. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/42/9/) — He found that the family was in great need. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/42/10/) — The man had not had work for a long time. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/42/11/) — He was not sick, but in distress; and, as for eating, there was no food in the house. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/42/12/) — "Call at my room this evening," said Goldsmith to the woman, "and I will give you some med-i-cine for your husband." - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/42/13/) — In the evening the woman called. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/42/14/) — Goldsmith gave her a little paper box that was very heavy. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/42/15/) — "Here is the med-i-cine," he said. " - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/42/16/) — Use it faith-ful-ly, and I think it will do your husband a great deal of good. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/42/17/) — But don't open the box until you reach home." - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/42/18/) — "What are the di-rec-tions for taking it?" asked the woman. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/42/19/) — "You will find them inside of the box," he answered. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/42/20/) — When the woman reached her home, she sat down by her husband's side, and they opened the box; What do you think they found in it? — checked by a teacher - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/42/21/) — It was full of pieces of money. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/42/22/) — And on the top were the di-rec-tions:-- - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/42/23/) — "TO BE TAKEN AS OFTEN AS NE-CES-SI-TY REQUIRES." - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/42/24/) — Goldsmith had given them all the ready money that he had. - ← previous: [The King and His Hawk.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/41/) - next →: [The Kingdoms.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/43/) - ↑ back to [Fifty Famous Stories Retold](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/)