--- title: The Voices At the Window, part 4 — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · full text with trees description: The Voices At the Window, part 4, «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales»: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: So the Tsarevko and the Tsarivna lived a long time together in happiness, but one day she asked him, "What of thy kindred and thy father's hou --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/7/) [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 Voices At the Window, part 4 # The Voices At the Window, part 4 The Voices At the Window, part 4 of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales»: the whole text, 29 sentences and 554 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/7/1/) — So the Tsarevko and the Tsarivna lived a long time together in happiness, but one day she asked him, "What of thy kindred and thy father's house?" - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/7/2/) — Then he told her all about his sister. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/7/3/) — She immediately bade him saddle his horse, and taking his beasts with him, go in search of her. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/7/4/) — They came to the place where he had left her, and saw that the bucket which was put up for the serpent was full of blood, but that the little Tsar's bucket was all dry and falling to pieces. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/7/5/) — Then he perceived that she was still lamenting for the serpent, and said to her, "God be with thee, but I will know thee no more. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/7/6/) — Stay here, and never will I look upon thy face again!" - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/7/7/) — But she began to entreat and caress and implore him that he would take her with him. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/7/8/) — Then the brother had compassion on his sister and took her away with him. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/7/9/) — Now when they got home she took out the serpent's tooth which she had hidden about her, and put it beneath his pillow on the bed whereon he slept. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/7/10/) — And at night-time the little Tsar went to lie down and the tooth killed him. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/7/11/) — His wife thought that he was sulky, and therefore did not speak to her, so she begged him not to be angry; and, getting no answer, took him by the hand, and lo! his hand was cold, as cold as lead, and she screamed out. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/7/12/) — But Protius came bounding through the door and kissed his master. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/7/13/) — Then the little Tsar became alive again, but Protius died. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/7/14/) — Then Nedviga kissed Protius and Protius became alive, but Nedviga died. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/7/15/) — Then the Tsarevko said to Medvedik, "Kiss Nedviga!" - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/7/16/) — He did so, and Nedviga became alive again, but Medvedik died. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/7/17/) — And so they went on kissing each other from the greatest to the smallest, till the turn came to the hare. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/7/18/) — She kissed Vovchok and died, but Vovchok remained alive. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/7/19/) — What was to be done? - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/7/20/) — Now that the little hare had died there was none to kiss her back into life again. " - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/7/21/) — Kiss her," said the little Tsar to the little fox. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/7/22/) — But the little fox was artful, and taking the little hare on his shoulder, he trotted off to the forest. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/7/23/) — He carried her to a place where lay a felled oak, with two branches one on the top of the other, and put the hare on the lower branch; then he ran under the branch and kissed the hare, but took good care that the branch should be between them. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/7/24/) — Thereupon the serpent's tooth flew out of the hare and fastened itself in the upper branch, and both fox and hare scampered back out of the forest alive and well. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/7/25/) — When the others saw them both alive they rejoiced greatly that no harm had come to any of them from the tooth. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/7/26/) — But they seized the sister and tied her to the tail of a savage horse and let her loose upon the endless steppe. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/7/27/) — So they all lived the merry lives of Tsars who feast continually. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/7/28/) — And I was there too, and drank wine and mead till my mouth ran over and it trickled all down my beard. - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/7/29/) — So there's the whole \_kazka\_ for you. - ← previous: [The Voices At the Window, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/6/) - next →: [The Vampire and St Michael](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/8/) - ↑ back to [Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/)