--- title: Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8 — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · full text with trees description: Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore»: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: "What am I to call out when I want you?" --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/) [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 8 # Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8 Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8 of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore»: the whole text, 175 sentences and 2612 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** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/page/2/) - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/1/) — "What am I to call out when I want you?" - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/2/) — "Call out to me, 'Osip, \[Joseph\] Osip, come here!' and I will come," he replied. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/3/) — Then he dived under water again, and she went to her mother's, carrying her little girl on one arm, and leading her boy by the hand. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/4/) — Out came her mother to meet her--was so delighted to see her! - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/5/) — "Good day, mother!" said the daughter. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/6/) — "Have you been doing well while you were living down there?" asked her mother. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/7/) — "Very well indeed, mother. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/8/) — My life there is better than yours here." - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/9/) — They sat down for a bit and chatted. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/10/) — Her mother got dinner ready for her, and she dined. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/11/) — "What's your husband's name?" asked her mother. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/12/) — "Osip," she replied. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/13/) — "And how are you to get home?" - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/14/) — "I shall go to the dike, and call out, 'Osip, Osip, come here!' and he'll come." - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/15/) — "Lie down, daughter, and rest a bit," said the mother. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/16/) — So the daughter lay down and went to sleep. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/17/) — The mother immediately took an axe and sharpened it, and went down to the dike with it. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/18/) — And when she came to the dike, she began calling out, - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/19/) — "Osip, Osip, come here!" - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/20/) — No sooner had Osip shown his head than the old woman lifted her axe and chopped it off. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/21/) — And the water in the pond became dark with blood. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/22/) — The old woman went home. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/23/) — And when she got home her daughter awoke. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/24/) — "Ah! mother," says she, "I'm getting tired of being here; I'll go home." - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/25/) — "Do sleep here to-night, daughter; perhaps you won't have another chance of being with me." - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/26/) — So the daughter stayed and spent the night there. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/27/) — In the morning she got up and her mother got breakfast ready for her; she breakfasted, and then she said good-bye to her mother and went away, carrying her little girl in her arms, while her boy followed behind her. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/28/) — She came to the dike, and called out: - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/29/) — "Osip, Osip, come here!" - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/30/) — She called and called, but he did not come. - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/31/) — Then she looked into the water, and there she saw a head floating about. - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/32/) — Then she guessed what had happened. - [33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/33/) — "Alas! my mother has killed him!" she cried. - [34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/34/) — There on the bank she wept and wailed. - [35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/35/) — And then to her girl she cried: - [36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/36/) — "Fly about as a wren, henceforth and evermore!" - [37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/37/) — And to her boy she cried: - [38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/38/) — "Fly about as a nightingale, my boy, henceforth and evermore!" - [39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/39/) — "But I," she said, "will fly about as a cuckoo, crying 'Cuckoo!' henceforth and evermore!" - [40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/40/) — \[Stories about serpent-spouses are by no means uncommon, but I can find no parallel to the above so far as the termination is concerned. - [41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/41/) — Benfey quotes or refers to a great number of the transformation tales in which a husband or a wife appears at times in the form of a snake (Panchatantra, i. pp. - [42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/42/) — 254-7 266-7). - [43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/43/) — Sometimes, when a husband of this kind has doffed his serpent's skin, his wife seizes it, and throws it into the fire. - [44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/44/) — Her act generally proves to be to her advantage, as well as to his, but not always. - [45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/45/) — On a story of this kind was doubtless founded the legend handed down to us by Appuleius of Cupid and Psyche. - [46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/46/) — Among its wildest versions are the Albanian "Schlangenkind" (Hahn, No. 100), a very similar Roumanian tale (Ausland 1857, No. 43, quoted by Benfey), the Wallachian Trandafiru (Schott, No. 23, in which the husband is a pumpkin (\_Kuerbiss\_) by day), and the second of the Servian tales of the Snake-Husband (Vuk Karajich, No. 10).\] - [47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/47/) — The snakes which figure in this weird story, the termination of which is so unusually tragic, bear a strong resemblance to the Indian Nagas, the inhabitants of Patala or the underground world, serpents which take at will the human shape and often mix with mortals. - [48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/48/) — They may, also, be related to the mermen and mermaids of the sea-coasts, and to the similar beings with which, under various names, tradition peoples the lakes, and streams, and fountains of Europe. — checked by a teacher - [49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/49/) — The South-Russian peasantry have from immemorial times maintained a firm belief in the existence of water-nymphs, called Rusalkas, closely resembling the Nereids of Modern Greece, the female Nixies of the North of Europe, and throughout the whole of Russia, at least in outlying districts, there still lingers a sort of cultus of certain male water-sprites who bear the name of Vodyanies, and who are almost identical with the beings who haunt the waters of various countries--such as the German \_Nix\_, the Swedish \_Nek\_, the Finnish \_Naekke\_, etc.\[142\] - [50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/50/) — In the Skazkas we find frequent mention of beauteous maidens who usually live beneath the wave, but who can transform themselves into birds and fly wherever they please. - [51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/51/) — We may perhaps be allowed to designate them by the well-known name of Swan-Maidens, though they do not always assume, together with their plumage-robes, the form of swans, but sometimes appear as geese, ducks, spoonbills, or aquatic birds of some other species. - [52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/52/) — They are, for the most part, the daughters of the Morskoi Tsar, or Water King--a being who plays an important part in Slavonic popular fiction. - [53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/53/) — He is of a somewhat shadowy form, and his functions are not very clearly defined, for the part he usually fills is sometimes allotted to Koshchei or to the Snake, but the stories generally represent him as a patriarchal monarch, living in subaqueous halls of light and splendor, whence he emerges at times to seize a human victim. - [54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/54/) — It is generally a boy whom he gets into his power, and who eventually obtains the hand of one of his daughters, and escapes with her to the upper world, though not without considerable difficulty. - [55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/55/) — Such are, for instance, the leading incidents in the following skazka, many features of which closely resemble those of various well-known West-European folk-tales. - [56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/56/) — THE WATER KING AND VASILISSA THE WISE. - [57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/57/) — \[143\] - [58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/58/) — Once upon a time there lived a King and Queen, and the King was very fond of hunting and shooting. - [59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/59/) — Well one day he went out hunting, and he saw an Eaglet sitting on an oak. - [60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/60/) — But just as he was going to shoot at it the Eaglet began to entreat him, crying:-- - [61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/61/) — "Don't shoot me, my lord King! better take me home with you; some time or other I shall be of service to you." - [62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/62/) — The King reflected awhile and said, "How can you be of use to me?" and again he was going to shoot. - [63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/63/) — Then the Eaglet said to him a second time:-- - [64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/64/) — "Don't shoot me, my lord King! better take me home with you; some time or other I shall be of use to you." - [65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/65/) — The King thought and thought, but couldn't imagine a bit the more what use the Eaglet could be to him, and so he determined to shoot it. - [66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/66/) — Then a third time the Eaglet exclaimed:-- - [67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/67/) — "Don't shoot me, my lord King! better take me home with you and feed me for three years. - [68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/68/) — Some time or other I shall be of service to you!" - [69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/69/) — The King relented, took the Eaglet home with him, and fed it for a year, for two years. - [70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/70/) — But it ate so much that it devoured all his cattle. - [71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/71/) — The King had neither a cow nor a sheep left. - [72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/72/) — At length the Eagle said:-- - [73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/73/) — "Now let me go free!" - [74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/74/) — The King set it at liberty; the Eagle began trying its wings. - [75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/75/) — But no, it could not fly yet! - [76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/76/) — So it said:-- - [77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/77/) — "Well, my lord King! you have fed me two years; now, whether you like it or no, feed me for one year more. - [78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/78/) — Even if you have to borrow, at all events feed me; you won't lose by it!" - [79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/79/) — Well, this is what the King did. - [80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/80/) — He borrowed cattle from everywhere round about, and he fed the Eagle for the space of a whole year, and afterwards he set it at liberty. - [81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/81/) — The Eagle rose ever so high, flew and flew, then dropt down again to the earth and said:-- - [82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/82/) — "Now then, my lord King! - [83](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/83/) — Take a seat on my back! we'll have a fly together?" - [84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/84/) — The King got on the Eagle's back. - [85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/85/) — Away they went flying. - [86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/86/) — Before very long they reached the blue sea. - [87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/87/) — Then the Eagle shook off the King, who fell into the sea, and sank up to his knees. - [88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/88/) — But the Eagle didn't let him drown! it jerked him on to its wing, and asked:-- - [89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/89/) — "How now, my lord King! were you frightened, perchance?" - [90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/90/) — "I was," said the King; "I thought I was going to be drowned outright!" - [91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/91/) — Again they flew and flew till they reached another sea. - [92](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/92/) — The Eagle shook off the King right in the middle of the sea; the King sank up to his girdle. - [93](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/93/) — The Eagle jerked him on to its wing again, and asked:-- - [94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/94/) — "Well, my lord King, were you frightened, perchance?" - [95](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/95/) — "I was," he replied, "but all the time I thought, 'Perhaps, please God, the creature will pull me out.'" - [96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/96/) — Away they flew again, flew, and arrived at a third sea. - [97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/97/) — The Eagle dropped the King into a great gulf, so that he sank right up to his neck. - [98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/98/) — And the third time the Eagle jerked him on to its wing, and asked:-- - [99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/99/) — "Well, my lord King! - [100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/100/) — Were you frightened, perchance?" **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/page/2/) - 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