--- title: Opening, part 2 — Russian Folk-Tales · full text with trees description: Opening, part 2, «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: When they reached the heath Márya Tsarévna said: “Come, little sister, I will find a cushion for your head.” --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/2/) [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 2 # Opening, part 2 Opening, part 2 of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev: the whole text, 160 sentences and 2543 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/pg62509/2/page/2/) When they reached the heath Márya Tsarévna said: “Come, little sister, I will find a cushion for your head.”[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") So she went to look, but whispered to herself:[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") “Sleep, my sister, sleep, Sleep, O sister mine; One eye go to sleep, Close that eye of thine.”[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") The sister went to sleep, and Márya Tsarévna stood up, went to her dear dun cow, bowed down to the right foot, and ate, and drank, and went about all day long like a princess.[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") In the evening she woke up her sister and said: “Get up, sister; get up, dearest; and we will go home.”[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") “Oh! oh! oh!” her sister whimpered, “I have been asleep all day long and have not seen anything, and mother will be so angry!”[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") When they got home, the stepmother asked: “What was it Márya Tsarévna ate and drank?”[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") “I did not see anything.”[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") So the witch scolded her, and next day sent the two-eyed sister with Márya.[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") “Go,” she said, “and see what she eats and drinks.”[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") And the girls came to the heath, and Márya Tsarévna said, “Come, little sister, I will find a cushion for your head.”[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") So she went to search, and whispered to herself:[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") “Sleep, my sister, sleep, Sleep, O sister mine; Two-eyes go to sleep, Close both eyes of thine.”[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") Two-eyes went to sleep, and Márya Tsarévna bowed down as before, to the right foot of the cow, and looked like a princess all day long.[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") In the evening she roused Two-eyes; and if the stepmother was angry before, she was much angrier this time.[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics") So next day she sent Three-eyes, and Márya Tsarévna sent her to sleep in the same way; only she forgot the third eye, and that went on looking and looking at what Márya Tsarévna did.[16](16/ "tree and pragmatics") For she ran to her dun cow’s right foot, bowed down, and ate, and drank, and went about all day long splendidly attired.[17](17/ "tree and pragmatics") And when she got home she laid the dry crust on the table.[18](18/ "tree and pragmatics") And the mother asked the daughter what Márya Tsarévna had eaten and drunk.[19](19/ "tree and pragmatics") Three-eyes told her everything; and the witch ordered the dun cow to be slain.[20](20/ "tree and pragmatics") “You must be mad, woman,” said the Tsar, “it’s quite a young heifer and so beautiful!”[21](21/ "tree and pragmatics") “I tell you,” said the stepmother, “it must be done”; and the old Tsar consented.[22](22/ "tree and pragmatics") But Márya Tsarévna asked him: “Father, do at least give me a little tiny bit out of the cow!”[23](23/ "tree and pragmatics") The old man gave her the piece, and she planted it; and a bush with sweet berries grew up, with little birds singing on it, singing songs fit for kings and peasants.[24](24/ "tree and pragmatics") Now Iván Tsarévich had heard of Márya Tsarévna, went to her stepmother, laid a bowl on the table, and said: “Whichever of the maidens brings me the bowl full of berries, I will marry.”[25](25/ "tree and pragmatics") So the mother sent One-eye to get the berries.[26](26/ "tree and pragmatics") But the birds drove her away from the bush and almost pecked out her one eye; and so with Two-eyes and Three-eyes.[27](27/ "tree and pragmatics") At last Márya Tsarévna had to go.[28](28/ "tree and pragmatics") Márya Tsarévna took the bowl and gathered the berries, and the little birds helped her in the task.[29](29/ "tree and pragmatics") When she got home she put the bowl on the table and bowed down to Iván Tsarévich.[30](30/ "tree and pragmatics") So Iván Tsarévich took Márya Tsarévna to be his wife, and they celebrated a merry wedding and lived a happy life.[31](31/ "tree and pragmatics") But, after a while, Márya Tsarévna bore a son.[32](32/ "tree and pragmatics") She wanted to show him to her father, and, together with her husband, went to visit him.[33](33/ "tree and pragmatics") Then the stepmother turned her into a goose, and decked her eldest daughter as though she were the wife of Iván Tsarévich.[34](34/ "tree and pragmatics") And Iván Tsarévich returned home.[35](35/ "tree and pragmatics") The old man, who tended the children, got up early in the morning, washed himself clean, took the child on his arm and went out to the field, to the bush in the field.[36](36/ "tree and pragmatics") Grey geese were flying over it.[37](37/ "tree and pragmatics") “Geese, ye grey ones, where is the baby’s mother?”[38](38/ "tree and pragmatics") “In the next flock!”[39](39/ "tree and pragmatics") Then the next flock came by.[40](40/ "tree and pragmatics") “Geese, ye grey ones, where is the baby’s mother?”[41](41/ "tree and pragmatics") Then the baby’s mother came to them, threw off her feathers, and gave her little child the breast, and began weeping:[42](42/ "tree and pragmatics") “For this one day I may come, and to-morrow, but the next day I must fly away over the woods and over the hills.”[43](43/ "tree and pragmatics") The old man went back home, and the boy slept all day long, until next morning, and did not wake up.[44](44/ "tree and pragmatics") The false wife was angry with him for taking the child into the fields where it must be much too cold.[45](45/ "tree and pragmatics") But next morning the old man again got up very early, washed himself clean, and took the child into the field.[46](46/ "tree and pragmatics") Iván Tsarévich followed him secretly and hid in the bush.[47](47/ "tree and pragmatics") Then the grey geese began soaring by.[48](48/ "tree and pragmatics") “Geese, ye grey ones, where is the baby’s mother?”[49](49/ "tree and pragmatics") “In the next flock!”[50](50/ "tree and pragmatics") Then the next flock came by.[51](51/ "tree and pragmatics") “Geese, ye grey ones, where is the baby’s mother?”[52](52/ "tree and pragmatics") Then the baby’s mother came to them, threw off her feathers, and gave her little child the breast, and began weeping: “For this one day I may come, but to-morrow I must fly away over the woods and over the hills.”[53](53/ "tree and pragmatics") Then she asked: “What do I smell there?” and wanted to put on her feathers again, but could not find them anywhere.[54](54/ "tree and pragmatics") Iván Tsarévich had burnt them.[55](55/ "tree and pragmatics") He seized hold of Márya Tsarévna, but she turned first into a frog, then into a lizard, and into all sorts of insects, and last of all into a spindle.[56](56/ "tree and pragmatics") Iván Tsarévich took the spindle and broke it in halves, threw the dull end behind him and the sharp one in front; and his beautiful young wife stood in front of him, and they went home.[57](57/ "tree and pragmatics") Then the daughter of the witch cried out: “The destroyer and the wicked woman have come.”[58](58/ "tree and pragmatics") But Iván Tsarévich assembled all the Princes and the \_boyárs\_, and he asked them: “With which wife shall I live?”[59](59/ "tree and pragmatics") They said: “With the first.”[60](60/ "tree and pragmatics") But he answered, “My lords, whichever wife leaps quickest to the door shall remain with me.”[61](61/ "tree and pragmatics") So the witch’s daughter climbed up at once, but Márya Tsarévna clung on.[62](62/ "tree and pragmatics") Then Iván Tsarévich took his gun and shot the substitute wife, and lived happy ever after with Márya Tsarévna.[63](63/ "tree and pragmatics") A TALE OF THE DEAD[64](64/ "tree and pragmatics") One day a peasant was going by night with pots on his head.[65](65/ "tree and pragmatics") He journeyed on and on, and his horse became tired and came to a spot in front of God’s acre.[66](66/ "tree and pragmatics") The peasant ungirded the horse, set it to graze, but he could not get any sleep.[67](67/ "tree and pragmatics") He lay down and lay down, suddenly the grave began opening under him, and he felt it and leaped to his feet.[68](68/ "tree and pragmatics") Then the grave opened and the corpse with the coffin lid got out, with his white shroud on; got out and ran up to the church door, laid the coffin lid at the gate and himself went into the village.[69](69/ "tree and pragmatics") Now this peasant was a bold fellow: so he took the coffin lid and set it by his \_teléga\_, and went to see what would come of it.[70](70/ "tree and pragmatics") Very soon the corpse came back, looked about him and could not find the coffin lid anywhere, and began to hunt for it.[71](71/ "tree and pragmatics") And at last he came up to the peasant, and said, “Give me my coffin lid, or else I will smash you to atoms.”[72](72/ "tree and pragmatics") **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/2/page/2/) - ← previous: [Opening, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/1/) - next →: [page 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/2/page/2/) - ↑ back to [Russian Folk-Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/)