--- title: Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7 — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · full text with trees · page 2 description: Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore»: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: As to the king, he was delighted to see Prince Ivan again, and when he had learnt all about the treachery of his --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/25/page/2/) [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/) / [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7 # Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7 · page 2 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/25/) **2** - [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/25/101/) — Say you will!" - [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/25/102/) — So she said, "Very well, I will." - [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/25/103/) — Then the snake glided off from the shift, and went straight into the water. - [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/25/104/) — The girl dressed and went home. - [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/25/105/) — And as soon as she got there, she said to her mother, - [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/25/106/) — "Mammie, mammie, thus and thus, a snake got upon my shift, and says he, 'Marry me or I won't let you have your shift;' and I said, 'I will.'" - [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/25/107/) — "What nonsense are you talking, you little fool! as if one could marry a snake!" - [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/25/108/) — And so they remained just as they were, and forgot all about the matter. - [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/25/109/) — A week passed by, and one day they saw ever so many snakes, a huge troop of them, wriggling up to their cottage. " - [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/25/110/) — Ah, mammie, save me, save me!" cried the girl, and her mother slammed the door and barred the entrance as quickly as possible. - [111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/25/111/) — The snakes would have rushed in at the door, but the door was shut; they would have rushed into the passage, but the passage was closed. - [112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/25/112/) — Then in a moment they rolled themselves into a ball, flung themselves at the window, smashed it to pieces, and glided in a body into the room. - [113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/25/113/) — The girl got upon the stove, but they followed her, pulled her down, and bore her out of the room and out of doors. - [114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/25/114/) — Her mother accompanied her, crying like anything. - [115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/25/115/) — They took the girl down to the pond, and dived right into the water with her. - [116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/25/116/) — And there they all turned into men and women. - [117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/25/117/) — The mother remained for some time on the dike, wailed a little, and then went home. - [118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/25/118/) — Three years went by. - [119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/25/119/) — The girl lived down there, and had two children, a son and a daughter. - [120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/25/120/) — Now she often entreated her husband to let her go to see her mother. - [121](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/25/121/) — So at last one day he took her up to the surface of the water, and brought her ashore. - [122](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/25/122/) — But she asked him before leaving him, [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/25/) **2** - ← previous: [Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/24/) - next →: [Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/) - ↑ back to [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/)