There was once a king who lived in a beautiful castle in the forest. One day it come to pass that knocked at the door an old woman; she said to him that she was his mother, thought by all to be died.
In the middle of conversation the king’s daughter arrived. When the girl was in front of theold woman she asked her if she was a ghost, but she (old woman) said that in the midst of the forest there was a maiden that had taken care of her because she had been killed by wolf. The maiden give her to drink the water of life for the three time and so she revived.
When the king’s mother finished to tell her story toke in her arms the son and the granddaughter.
Ever since they lived happily.
This text was created as quite an interesting writing task.
It comes from the HLT website - using corpora section.
It is included here as a useful example of text that can trainees can use for error correction.