--- title: The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3 — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · full text with trees description: The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales»: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: He raised his head and found himself sitting in a wood, and there he saw an armless man pursuing a hare. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/) [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/) / [Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/) / The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3 # The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3 The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3 of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales»: the whole text, 118 sentences and 1978 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself; 2 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/pg29672/27/page/2/) - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/1/) — He raised his head and found himself sitting in a wood, and there he saw an armless man pursuing a hare. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/2/) — He pursued and pursued it, but though he caught it up, he couldn't catch it, for he had no arms. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/3/) — Then Ivan Golik caught it and they fell out about it. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/4/) — The armless one said, "The hare is mine!"--"No," said Ivan Golik, "it is mine!" - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/5/) — So they quarrelled over it, but as one had no legs and the other had no arms, they couldn't hurt one another. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/6/) — At last the armless one said, "What is the use of our quarrelling? - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/7/) — Let us pull up that oak, and whichever of us pitches it farthest shall have the hare." - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/8/) — "Good!" said Legless. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/9/) — Then Armless kicked Legless up to the oak, and Legless pulled it up and gave it to Armless. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/10/) — Then Armless lay down on the ground and kicked the oak with his feet three miles off. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/11/) — But Legless threw it seven miles. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/12/) — Then Armless said, "Take the hare and be my elder brother!" - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/13/) — So they became brothers, and made a wagon between them, and fastened ropes to it, and while Armless dragged it along Legless drove it. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/14/) — On they went till they came to a town where a Tsar lived. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/15/) — There they went up to the church, and planted themselves with their wagon in the place of beggars, and waited till the Tsarivna came up. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/16/) — And the Tsarivna said to her court lady, "Take this money, and give it to those poor cripples." - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/17/) — The lady was about to go with it when Legless said, "Nay, but let the Tsarivna give it to us with her own hands." - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/18/) — Then the Tsarivna took the money from her court lady and gave it to Legless. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/19/) — But he said to her, "Be not angry, but tell me, now, wherefore art thou so yellow?" - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/20/) — "God made me so," answered she, and then she sighed. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/21/) — "No," replied Legless. " - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/22/) — I know why thou art so yellow. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/23/) — But I can make thee once more just as God made thee." - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/24/) — Now the Tsar had heard them speaking, and the words of the cripples moved him strangely. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/25/) — So he had the armless man and the legless man in the wagon brought to him, and said to them, "Do as you are able." - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/26/) — But Legless said, "O Tsar! let the Tsarivna speak the truth, and confess openly how she became so yellow!" - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/27/) — Then the father turned to his daughter, and she confessed and said, "The serpent flew to me, and drew my blood out of my breast." - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/28/) — "When did he fly to thee?" they asked. - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/29/) — "Just before dawn, when the guards were sleeping, he came flying down my chimney. - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/30/) — In he came flying, and lay down beneath the cushions of my couch." - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/31/) — "Stop!" cried Legless; "we'll hide in the straw in thy room, and when the serpent comes flying in again, thou must cough and wake us." - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/32/) — So they hid them in the straw, and just as the guards had ceased knocking at the doors as they went their rounds, sparks began to flash beneath the straw roof, and the Tsarivna coughed. - [33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/33/) — They rushed up to her, and saw the serpent already nestling beneath the cushions. - [34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/34/) — Then the Tsarivna leaped out of bed; but Armless lay down on the floor and kicked Legless on to the cushions, and Legless took the serpent in his arms and began to throttle it. " - [35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/35/) — Let me go! let me go!" begged the serpent, "and I'll never fly here again, but will renounce my tithes." - [36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/36/) — But Legless said, "That is but a small thing. - [37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/37/) — Thou must carry us to the place of healing waters, that I may get back my legs and my brother here his arms." - [38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/38/) — "Catch hold of me," said the serpent, "and I'll take you, only torture me no more." - [39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/39/) — So Legless clung on to him with his arms and Armless with his feet, and the serpent flew away with them till he came to a spring. " - [40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/40/) — There's your healing water!" cried he. - [41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/41/) — Armless wanted to plunge in straightway, but Legless shrieked, "Wait, brother! - [42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/42/) — Hold the serpent tight with your legs while I thrust a dry stick into the spring, and then we shall see whether it really is healing water." - [43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/43/) — So he thrust a stick in, and no sooner had it touched the water than it was consumed as though by fire. - [44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/44/) — Then the pair of them, in their rage, fell upon that false serpent and almost killed him. - [45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/45/) — They beat him and beat him till he cried for mercy. " - [46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/46/) — Beat me no more!" cried he; "the spring of healing water is not very far off!" - [47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/47/) — Then he took them to another spring. - [48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/48/) — Into this they also dipped a dry stick, and immediately it burst into flower. - [49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/49/) — Then Armless leaped into the spring and leaped out again with arms, whereupon he pitched in Legless, who immediately leaped out again with legs of his own. - [50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/50/) — So they let the serpent go, first making him promise never to fly to the Tsarivna again, and then each thanked the other for his friendship, and so they parted. - [51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/51/) — But Ivan Golik went again to his brother the prince, to see what had become of him. " - [52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/52/) — I wonder what the princess has done to him?" thought he. - [53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/53/) — So he went toward that tsardom, and presently he saw not very far from the roadside, a swineherd tending swine; he was tending swine, but he himself sat upon a tomb. " - [54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/54/) — I'll go and ask that swineherd what he's doing there," thought Ivan Golik. - [55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/55/) — So he went up to the swineherd, and, looking straight into his eyes, recognized his own brother. - [56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/56/) — And the swineherd looked at him, and recognized Ivan Golik. - [57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/57/) — There they stood for a long time looking into each other's eyes, but neither of them spoke a word. - [58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/58/) — At last Ivan Golik found his voice: "What!" cried he. " - [59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/59/) — Is it thou, O prince, who art feeding swine? - [60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/60/) — Thou art rightly served! - [61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/61/) — Did I not bid thee, 'Tell not thy wife the truth for seven years'?" - [62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/62/) — At this the prince flung himself down at the other's feet, and cried, "O Ivan Golik! forgive me, and have mercy!" - [63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/63/) — Then Ivan Golik raised him up by the shoulders and said, "'Tis well for thee that thou art still in God's fair world! - [64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/64/) — Yet wait a little while, and thou shalt be Tsar again!" - [65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/65/) — The prince thereupon asked Ivan Golik how he had got his legs back again, for the princess had told him how she had cut Ivan Golik in two. - [66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/66/) — Then Ivan Golik confessed to him that he was his younger brother, and told him the whole story of his life. - [67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/67/) — So they embraced and kissed each other, and then the prince said, "'Tis high time I drove these swine home, for the princess doesn't like being kept waiting for her tea." - [68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/68/) — "Well," said Ivan Golik, "we'll drive them back together." - [69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/69/) — "The worst of it, brother, is this," said the prince. " - [70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/70/) — Dost thou see that accursed pig that leads the others? - [71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/71/) — Well, he will go only up to the gate of the sty, and there he stands fast as if rooted to the ground, and until I kiss his bristles he will not move from the spot. - [72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/72/) — And all the time the princess and the serpents are sitting in the gallery at tea, and they look on and laugh!" - [73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/73/) — But Ivan Golik said, "It needs must be so! - [74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/74/) — Kiss it again to-day, and to-morrow thou shalt kiss it no more!" - [75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/75/) — Then they drove the swine up to the gates, and Ivan Golik looked to see what would happen. - [76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/76/) — He saw the princess sitting in the gallery with six serpents drinking tea, and the accursed pig stuck fast in the gate, and stretched out its legs and wouldn't go in. - [77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/77/) — The princess looked on and said, "Look at my fool driving the swine, and now he is going to kiss the big boar!" - [78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/78/) — So the poor fellow stooped down and kissed its bristles, and the pig ran grunting into the courtyard. - [79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/79/) — Then the princess said, "Look! he has picked up from somewhere an under-herdsman to help him!" - [80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/80/) — The prince and Ivan Golik drove the pigs into their sty, and then Ivan Golik said, "Brother, get me twenty poods of hemp and twenty poods of pitch, and bring them to me in the garden." - [81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/81/) — And he did so. - [82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/82/) — Then Ivan Golik made him a huge whip of the twenty poods of hemp and the twenty poods of tar. - [83](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/83/) — First he twined tightly a pood of hemp, and tarred it well with a pood of pitch; round this he plaited another pood of hemp, and tarred that also with another pood of pitch, till he had used up the whole forty. - [84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/84/) — By midnight his task was done, and then he laid him down to sleep. - [85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/85/) — But the prince had gone to sleep long before in the pig-sty. - [86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/86/) — Early in the morning they rose up again, and Ivan Golik said to him, "Up till to-day thou hast been a swineherd, and after to-day thou shalt be a prince again; but first let us drive the swine into the field." - [87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/87/) — "Nay, but," said the prince, "the princess has not yet come out upon the balcony to drink tea with the serpents, and see me kiss the pig before it goes out, as is her wont." - [88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/88/) — Ivan Golik said to him, "We will drive the swine out this time too, but it will not be thou but I who shall kiss the big boar." - [89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/89/) — "Good!" said the prince. - [90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/90/) — And now the time came for the swine to be driven away, and the princess came out on the balcony to drink tea. - [91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/91/) — They took the swine out of the sty, and the pair of them drove the beasts before them. - [92](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/92/) — When they reached the gate the leading pig stuck fast in the gateway, and wouldn't budge an inch. - [93](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/93/) — The princess and the serpents grinned and looked on, but Ivan Golik flicked his heroic whip, and struck the pig one blow that made it fly to pieces. - [94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/94/) — Then all the serpents wriggled off as fast as they could. - [95](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/95/) — But she, the accursed one, was in no way frightened, but caught Ivan by the hair of his head. - [96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/96/) — He, however, caught her also by her long locks, and flicked her with his whip till he had flicked all the serpent-blood out of her, and she walked the earth in human guise. - [97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/97/) — So she cast off her serpent nature, and lived happily with her husband. — checked by a teacher - [98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/98/) — And that's the end of the \_kazka\_. - [99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/99/) — \* \* \* \* \* - [100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/100/) — Transcriber's Note: **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/page/2/) - ← previous: [The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/26/) - ↑ back to [Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/)