--- title: Opening, part 12 — Russian Folk-Tales · full text with trees description: Opening, part 12, «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: THE PRIEST WITH THE ENVIOUS EYES --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/12/) [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 Folk-Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/) / Opening, part 12 # Opening, part 12 Opening, part 12 of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev: the whole text, 175 sentences and 2562 words. The small number after every sentence leads to its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/12/page/2/) THE PRIEST WITH THE ENVIOUS EYES[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") There was once a priest who lived in the parish of St. Nicholas.[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") He served St. Nicholas for some years, and all his earnings were that he had neither house nor home, nor a roof over his head.[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") So our good priest got together all his keys, and seeing the icon of St. Nicholas, struck it down, and left his parish to go whithersoever his eyes should guide him.[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") And he went roaming on his way.[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") Suddenly an unknown man met him.[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") “How do you do, good man?” he said to the pope.[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") \[18\] “Whither are you going? and whence do you come?”[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") “Take me with you as a companion.”[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") So they went off together.[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") They went on some \_versts\_, and became tired.[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") It was time to rest.[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") Now the pope had two biscuits, and his new friend had two wafers.[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") The pope said to him: “We will first of all eat up your wafers, and we will then go on with the biscuits.”[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") “All right!” the unknown man said to him.[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics") “Let us first eat up my wafers, and leave your biscuits for a dessert.”[16](16/ "tree and pragmatics") So they ate the wafers, ate them all up, and they were fully sated, and there were still wafers over.[17](17/ "tree and pragmatics") So the pope became envious.[18](18/ "tree and pragmatics") “Why,” he thought, “I will steal them.”[19](19/ "tree and pragmatics") The old man lay down to sleep after dinner, and the pope was all agog to see how he could steal those wafers.[20](20/ "tree and pragmatics") The old man went to sleep; so the pope abstracted the wafers from his pocket and silently began eating them.[21](21/ "tree and pragmatics") The old man woke up and felt for his wafers, and could not find them anywhere.[22](22/ "tree and pragmatics") “Where are my wafers?[23](23/ "tree and pragmatics") Who has eaten them up?[24](24/ "tree and pragmatics") Have you, pope?”[25](25/ "tree and pragmatics") “No, I did not,” answered the pope.[26](26/ "tree and pragmatics") “Well, all right; I don’t mind.”[27](27/ "tree and pragmatics") So they shook themselves up, and they went on their way and journey, went on and on, and the roads suddenly divided and they came to a carfax.[28](28/ "tree and pragmatics") So they both went on a single road and arrived at a kingdom.[29](29/ "tree and pragmatics") Now, in this kingdom the Tsar’s daughter was near her death, and the Tsar had promised any one who should cure her half of his reign and rule and realm; but any one who failed was to have his head cut off and placed on a pole.[30](30/ "tree and pragmatics") When they arrived in front of the Tsar’s courtyard, they got themselves up finely, and they called themselves doctors.[31](31/ "tree and pragmatics") The henchmen sallied out of the Tsar’s courtyard, and asked them: “What sort of people are you?[32](32/ "tree and pragmatics") What is your race?[33](33/ "tree and pragmatics") What is your city?[34](34/ "tree and pragmatics") What do you require?”[35](35/ "tree and pragmatics") “We,” they answered, “are doctors, and we can cure the Tsarévna.”[36](36/ "tree and pragmatics") “Well, if you are doctors, come into the palace.”[37](37/ "tree and pragmatics") So they went into the palace, looked at the Tsarévna, asked for special huts from the Tsar, for a can of water, for a curved sabre, and a large table.[38](38/ "tree and pragmatics") The Tsar gave them all they required.[39](39/ "tree and pragmatics") They then locked themselves up in the huts, tied the princess down on the big table, cut her up with the curved sabre into little bits, put them all into the cauldron, washed them, and rinsed them out.[40](40/ "tree and pragmatics") Then they began to put them together—bit by bit, fragment by fragment.[41](41/ "tree and pragmatics") And the old man breathed on them.[42](42/ "tree and pragmatics") Piece clove to piece, and made one.[43](43/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he took all the pieces, breathed on them for the last time, and the princess trembled all over, and woke alive and well.[44](44/ "tree and pragmatics") The Tsar himself came into their hut.[45](45/ "tree and pragmatics") “In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost!”[46](46/ "tree and pragmatics") “Amen!” they answered.[47](47/ "tree and pragmatics") “Have you cured the Tsarévna?” asked the Tsar.[48](48/ "tree and pragmatics") “Yes,” the doctors answered—“there she is!”[49](49/ "tree and pragmatics") The Tsarévna came out with the Tsar alive and well.[50](50/ "tree and pragmatics") The Tsar said to the doctors: “What good thing do you desire—gold or silver?[51](51/ "tree and pragmatics") Ask and you shall have.”[52](52/ "tree and pragmatics") So they began to bring gold and silver.[53](53/ "tree and pragmatics") And the old man took as much as he could take with his thumb and two fingers, but the pope took it by handfuls, and he rammed it all into his wallet and hid it away, concealed it, lifted it up as much as ever his power could.[54](54/ "tree and pragmatics") The old man then said to the pope: “Let us bury all the money in the earth and again go a-healing.”[55](55/ "tree and pragmatics") So they went on and went on, and they arrived at another kingdom in which there also was a princess on the verge of death, and the Tsar promised any one who should cure her half of his realm and rule and reign; but any one who failed was to have his head cut off.[56](56/ "tree and pragmatics") But the Evil One was tempting the envious pope—how he should manage to tell nothing to the old man, but to cure her by himself, and so get all the gold and silver for himself.[57](57/ "tree and pragmatics") So he dubbed himself a doctor, arrayed himself finely, and arrived at the Tsar’s courtyard, just as they had done before.[58](58/ "tree and pragmatics") In the same way he asked for the same implements from the Tsar, shut himself up in the special hut, tied the princess down on the table, took out the curved sabre; and however much the Tsarévna might cry out and wriggle, the pope disregarded all her shrieks, and all her yelpings, poor girl, and cut her to bits like mincemeat.[59](59/ "tree and pragmatics") He then cut it all up fine, threw it into the cauldron, washed it and rinsed it, took it out, put piece to piece exactly the same as the old man had done.[60](60/ "tree and pragmatics") And he then wanted to put them altogether, breathed on them—and nothing happened\![61](61/ "tree and pragmatics") He pumped his lungs out, but nothing happened.[62](62/ "tree and pragmatics") It was all to no purpose.[63](63/ "tree and pragmatics") So he put all the fragments back into the water, rinsed and scoured them through, fitting the pieces together, and breathed on them.[64](64/ "tree and pragmatics") It was all of no good.[65](65/ "tree and pragmatics") “Oh, whatever shall I do?” the pope thought.[66](66/ "tree and pragmatics") “This is simply horrible!”[67](67/ "tree and pragmatics") In the morning the Tsar went to him and saw that the doctor had had no luck.[68](68/ "tree and pragmatics") He had mixed up the whole body on the floor.[69](69/ "tree and pragmatics") So the Tsar ordered the doctor to the gallows.[70](70/ "tree and pragmatics") The pope then began to beg.[71](71/ "tree and pragmatics") “Tsar\![72](72/ "tree and pragmatics") Tsar\![73](73/ "tree and pragmatics") I am a free man.[74](74/ "tree and pragmatics") Give me a short space of time.[75](75/ "tree and pragmatics") I will go and look out for another old man who can really cure the Tsarévna.”[76](76/ "tree and pragmatics") So the pope went to look for the old man, found him, and said: “Old man, I am a depraved sinner.[77](77/ "tree and pragmatics") The fiends tempted me.[78](78/ "tree and pragmatics") I wanted to cure the Tsar’s daughter all by myself, and I was not able, and they are now going to hang me.[79](79/ "tree and pragmatics") Do come and help me!”[80](80/ "tree and pragmatics") So the old man went with the pope, and the noose was put round the pope’s neck.[81](81/ "tree and pragmatics") Then the old man said to the pope: “Pope, who ate up my wafers?”[82](82/ "tree and pragmatics") “I really didn’t; I swear I didn’t!”[83](83/ "tree and pragmatics") So they made him mount one rung higher, and again the old man said to him: “Pope, who ate my wafers up?”[84](84/ "tree and pragmatics") “I really didn’t; I swear I didn’t!”[85](85/ "tree and pragmatics") So he went up the third rung, and again said he didn’t.[86](86/ "tree and pragmatics") This time he had his head in the noose tight, and still he said: “I did nothing of the sort!”[87](87/ "tree and pragmatics") So the old man said to the Tsar: “I am a free man.[88](88/ "tree and pragmatics") Will you let me cure the Tsarévna, and if I do not succeed, have a second noose got ready for my neck: one for me and one for the pope.”[89](89/ "tree and pragmatics") **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/12/page/2/) - ← previous: [Opening, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/11/) - next →: [page 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/12/page/2/) - ↑ back to [Russian Folk-Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/)