Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: Ulysses Ferragut As is regaled with tales of sea by retired uncle young boy growing up in Spanish family with long and very distinguished maritime tradition, Fact2: lawyer father wants him to follow in footsteps, Fact3: enormous profits to be made from sudden demand for shipping With outbreak of ends plan World War I, Fact4: Ulysses On stop in visits ruins of Pompeii Italy, Fact5: Esteban After goes to Barcelona week waiting for Ulysses at lodgings
Output (English): As a young boy growing up in a Spanish family with a long and very distinguished maritime tradition, Ulysses Ferragut is regaled with tales of the sea by his retired uncle, the Triton Apollon, and is particularly fascinated by his claim to have once seen the sea goddess Amphitrite. Though his lawyer father, Don Esteban, wants him to follow in his footsteps, Ulysses becomes a sailor. When he is a grown man Antonio Moreno, Ulysses uses his life savings to purchase the Mare Nostrum, a fast, modern freighter, and prospers. However, he finally gives in to his wife, Dona Cinta, for the sake of their son Esteban, and agrees to sell his ship. With the outbreak of World War I, however, the enormous profits to be made from the sudden demand for shipping ends this plan. On a stop in Italy, Ulysses visits the ruins of Pompeii, and meets Freya Talberg Alice Terry and the learned Doctor Fedelmann. He soon falls in love with Freya who looks exactly like his uncles painting of Amphitrite. Though she later informs him that she is an Austrian spy as is Fedelmann, Spain is neutral and his ardor is undiminished. He agrees to transport Count Kaledine to a secret rendezvous in the Mediterranean. The Uboat U35 surfaces, takes on fuel from Ulysses ship, and departs with Kaledine. Meanwhile, young Esteban leaves home without permission to find his father. After a week waiting for Ulysses at his lodgings, Esteban goes back to Barcelona aboard the Californian, a British passenger ship. However, the boy is killed when the Californian is sunk by the U35. Ulysses learns of his sons fate from a survivor, and realizes to his grief his role in the tragedy. He vows to avenge his boy. Upon hearing of the death, Freya sends Ulysses a letter denouncing the barbarity of the act; it is intercepted by Doctor Fedelmann. That, along with Freyas admission she has fallen in love with Ulysses, convinces Fedelmann that her subordinate can no longer be trusted. She sends Freya to Marseilles, intending to betray her to the French. Freya suspects as much, and begs Ulysses to take her to safety aboard his ship. Ulysses is torn, but a vision of his son shaking his head makes him refuse. Freya is later captured, convicted, and shot by a firing squad at dawn. As he is leaving Freyas apartment, Ulysses encounters Count Kaledine. After a brief struggle, he chases Kaledine through the streets, gathering a mob. Kaledine is caught and taken into custody. Ulysses then employs the Mare Nostrum in the service of the Allies, arming her with a deck gun, replacing his crew with French military sailors, and transporting munitions to Salonica. Only longtime family friend and sea cook Caragol refuses to leave him. On the voyage, they are intercepted by the U35. With the Mare Nostrum torpedoed and doomed, Ulysses mans the abandoned deck gun and sinks the U35. As Ulysses descends into the ocean depths, Amphitrite rises to embrace and kiss him.