--- title: Opening, part 16 — Russian Folk-Tales · full text with trees · page 2 description: Opening, part 16, «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: ILYÁ MÚROMETS[20] AND SVYATOGÓR THE KNIGHT --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/16/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 Folk-Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/) / Opening, part 16 # Opening, part 16 · page 2 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/16/) **2** She went and sat down in the barouche and drove home, went up to her husband, and he fixed his eyes on her, and didn’t know his wife.[89](../../89/ "tree and pragmatics") “What’s the matter?[90](../../90/ "tree and pragmatics") Have you lost your eyesight?” the lady asked.[91](../../91/ "tree and pragmatics") “Don’t you see it is I, young and stately; I don’t want to have an old husband.[92](../../92/ "tree and pragmatics") Go at once to the smith and ask him to forge you young, and you won’t know yourself!”[93](../../93/ "tree and pragmatics") What could the husband do?[94](../../94/ "tree and pragmatics") Husbands must obey, and so off he drove.[95](../../95/ "tree and pragmatics") In the meantime, the smith had returned home and went to the smithy.[96](../../96/ "tree and pragmatics") He went, and there was no sign of his man.[97](../../97/ "tree and pragmatics") He looked for him everywhere, asked everybody, questioned them, but it was no good, and all trace had vanished.[98](../../98/ "tree and pragmatics") So he set to work by himself and began hammering.[99](../../99/ "tree and pragmatics") Then the husband drove up and said straight out to the smith: “Make a young man of me, please!”[100](../../100/ "tree and pragmatics") “Are you in your senses, master?[101](../../101/ "tree and pragmatics") How can I make a young man of you?”[102](../../102/ "tree and pragmatics") “Oh! you know how to!”[103](../../103/ "tree and pragmatics") “I really have not any idea!”[104](../../104/ "tree and pragmatics") “Liar! fool! swindler\![105](../../105/ "tree and pragmatics") Why, you turned my old woman into a young one.[106](../../106/ "tree and pragmatics") Do the same by me, otherwise life with her won’t be worth living.”[107](../../107/ "tree and pragmatics") “But I have not seen your wife!”[108](../../108/ "tree and pragmatics") “Never mind!—your young man saw her, and if he understood how to manage the work, surely you, as the craftsman, understand\![109](../../109/ "tree and pragmatics") Set to work quickly, unless you want to taste worse of me and be birched.”[110](../../110/ "tree and pragmatics") So the smith had no choice but to transform the master.[111](../../111/ "tree and pragmatics") So he quietly asked the coachman what his man had done with the lady, and thought: “Well, I don’t mind\![112](../../112/ "tree and pragmatics") I will do the same; it may come out to the same tune, or it may not.[113](../../113/ "tree and pragmatics") I must look out for myself.”[114](../../114/ "tree and pragmatics") So he stripped the lord to his skin, clutched his legs up with nippers, threw him into the forge, began to blow up the bellows, and burned him to ashes.[115](../../115/ "tree and pragmatics") Afterwards he threw the bones—hurled them all into the milk, and began watching would a young master emerge from the bath.[116](../../116/ "tree and pragmatics") And he waited one hour, and another hour, and nothing happened, looked at the little tub—all the little bones were floating about all burned to pieces.[117](../../117/ "tree and pragmatics") And what was the lady doing?[118](../../118/ "tree and pragmatics") She sent messengers to the smithy.[119](../../119/ "tree and pragmatics") “When was the master to be turned out?”[120](../../120/ "tree and pragmatics") And the poor smith answered that the master had wished her a long life.[121](../../121/ "tree and pragmatics") And you may imagine what they thought of this.[122](../../122/ "tree and pragmatics") Soon she learned that all the smith had done had been to burn her husband to bits and not to make him young, and she was very angry indeed, sent her body-servants, and ordered them to take the smith to the gallows.[123](../../123/ "tree and pragmatics") The order was given, and the thing was done.[124](../../124/ "tree and pragmatics") The attendants ran to the smith, laid hold of him, and took him to the gallows.[125](../../125/ "tree and pragmatics") Then the same young man who had acted as a hand to the smith came and asked: “Where are they taking you, master?”[126](../../126/ "tree and pragmatics") “They are going to hang me!” the smith said.[127](../../127/ "tree and pragmatics") And he explained what had happened.[128](../../128/ "tree and pragmatics") “Well, never mind, uncle!” said the Unholy Spirit.[129](../../129/ "tree and pragmatics") “Swear that you will never strike me with your hammer, and I will secure you such honour as your father had.[130](../../130/ "tree and pragmatics") The lady’s husband shall arise young and in full health.”[131](../../131/ "tree and pragmatics") The smith swore and made oath that he would never raise the hammer on the devil and would give him every honour.[132](../../132/ "tree and pragmatics") Then the workman ran to the smithy, and soon returned with the husband, crying out to the servants to stop and not to hang the smith, for there the master was\![133](../../133/ "tree and pragmatics") He then untied the ropes and set the smith free.[134](../../134/ "tree and pragmatics") And the youth thereafter never more spat on the devil and beat him with a hammer.[135](../../135/ "tree and pragmatics") But his workman vanished and was never seen again.[136](../../136/ "tree and pragmatics") The master and mistress lived on and experienced good in their life, and they are still alive, if they are not dead.[137](../../137/ "tree and pragmatics") THE PRINCESS WHO WOULD NOT SMILE[138](../../138/ "tree and pragmatics") If you think of it, what a big world God’s world is: in it rich and poor folk live, and there is room enough for them all; and the Lord overlooks and judges them all.[139](../../139/ "tree and pragmatics") There are fine folk who have holidays, there are wailful folk who must moil; every man has his lot.[140](../../140/ "tree and pragmatics") In the Tsar’s palace, in the Prince’s chamber, every day the Princess Without a Smile grew fairer.[141](../../141/ "tree and pragmatics") What a life she had, what plenty, what beauty round her\![142](../../142/ "tree and pragmatics") There was enough of everything that exists that the soul may desire, but she never smiled, never laughed, and it seemed as though her heart could not rejoice at anything.[143](../../143/ "tree and pragmatics") It was a bitter thing for the Tsar her father to gaze at his doleful daughter.[144](../../144/ "tree and pragmatics") He used to open his imperial palace to whoever would be his guest.[145](../../145/ "tree and pragmatics") “Come,” he said, “come and try to enliven the Princess Without a Smile: any one who succeeds shall gain her as his wife.”[146](../../146/ "tree and pragmatics") And as soon as he had said this all folk thronged up at the gates of the palace, driving up from all sides, coming on foot, Tsarévichi and princes’ sons, \_boyárs\_ and noblemen, military folk and civil.[147](../../147/ "tree and pragmatics") Feasts were celebrated, rivers of mead flowed, and the Princess would not smile.[148](../../148/ "tree and pragmatics") But, at the other end of the town, in his own little hut, there dwelt an honourable labourer.[149](../../149/ "tree and pragmatics") Every morning he used to sweep out the courtyard: every evening he used to pasture the cattle, and he was engaged in ceaseless labour.[150](../../150/ "tree and pragmatics") His master was a rich man, a just man, and he did not begrudge pay.[151](../../151/ "tree and pragmatics") When the year came to an end he put a purse of money on the table, “Take,” he said, “as much as you like”; and the master went outside.[152](../../152/ "tree and pragmatics") The workman went up to the table and thought, “How shall I not be guilty in the eyes of God if I take too much for my labour?”[153](../../153/ "tree and pragmatics") So he took only one little coin, put it into the hollow of his hand and thought he would have a little drink.[154](../../154/ "tree and pragmatics") So he went to the well, and the coin slipped through his fingers and fell to the bottom.[155](../../155/ "tree and pragmatics") So the poor fellow had nothing left.[156](../../156/ "tree and pragmatics") Now, anybody else in his place would have cried out, would have become melancholy and angry, might have put his hands up.[157](../../157/ "tree and pragmatics") He did nothing of the sort.[158](../../158/ "tree and pragmatics") “Everything,” he said, “comes from God.[159](../../159/ "tree and pragmatics") The Lord knows what He gives to each man, whose money He divides, from whom He takes the last money.[160](../../160/ "tree and pragmatics") Evidently I have given bad care, I have done little work; and now am I to become angry?”[161](../../161/ "tree and pragmatics") So he set to work once more.[162](../../162/ "tree and pragmatics") And all that his hand touched flew like fire.[163](../../163/ "tree and pragmatics") Then, when the term was over, when one year more had gone by, the master again put a purse of money on the table: “Take,” he said, “as much as your soul desires”; and he himself went outside.[164](../../164/ "tree and pragmatics") [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/16/) **2** - ← previous: [page 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/16/) - next →: [Opening, part 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/17/) - ↑ back to [Russian Folk-Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/)