--- title: Opening, part 25 — Russian Folk-Tales · full text with trees description: Opening, part 25, «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: When he came to himself he got up and he looked, and he found himself in the subterranean world, where there was the same light as was here. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/25/) [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 25 # Opening, part 25 Opening, part 25 of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev: the whole text, 160 sentences and 2607 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/pg62509/25/page/2/) When he came to himself he got up and he looked, and he found himself in the subterranean world, where there was the same light as was here.[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") “I suppose there are people here as well,” he thought.[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") So he went on and on, and saw a great city and a sentry-box in front of it, and in it a sentry.[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") He began to ask him questions, but never an answer, never a movement\![4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") So he took him by the hand, and found that he was all stone.[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") Then the soldier went into the sentry-box: and there were many people, and they stood or sat, only they had all been turned to stone.[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") He then set to wandering in the streets, and everywhere it was the same—not a single live soul to be seen\![7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") Soon he came to a decorated, raised, clean-cut palace, marched in there, and looked.[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") Rich rooms; and food and drink of all sorts were on the table; and all was silent and empty.[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") So the soldier ate and drank; sat down to have a rest.[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") Suddenly it seemed to him as though some one had come up the steps.[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") So he shouldered his musket and went to the door.[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") A fair Tsarévna was coming in with her maids of honour and attendants.[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") The soldier bowed down to her, and she curtsied to him kindly.[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") “Hail, soldier!” she said.[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics") “By what ill doom have you fallen down here?”[16](16/ "tree and pragmatics") So the soldier began to tell her.[17](17/ "tree and pragmatics") “I was engaged as sentry in the imperial garden, and a big bird came and flew round the trees and shattered them.[18](18/ "tree and pragmatics") I watched him, fired at him, and three feathers fell out of his wing.[19](19/ "tree and pragmatics") I began to chase after him, and arrived here.”[20](20/ "tree and pragmatics") Then she answered, “That bird is my own sister: she does much evil of every kind and has set an ill doom on my kingdom, having turned all my people to stone.[21](21/ "tree and pragmatics") Listen! here is a book for you.[22](22/ "tree and pragmatics") Stand here and read it from evening time until the hour when the cocks crow.[23](23/ "tree and pragmatics") Whatever suffering may come over you, do your duty; read the book, keep it close to you that they may not tear it from you, otherwise you will not remain alive.[24](24/ "tree and pragmatics") If you can stay here for three nights I will come and marry you.”[25](25/ "tree and pragmatics") “Very well,” said the soldier.[26](26/ "tree and pragmatics") Soon it became dark, and he took the book and began reading it.[27](27/ "tree and pragmatics") Then there was a knocking and a thundering, and an entire host appeared in the palace.[28](28/ "tree and pragmatics") All his former superiors appeared in front of the soldier, scolded him and threatened him with the punishment of death.[29](29/ "tree and pragmatics") And they got their guns and were levelling them at him: but the soldier never looked at them, never let the book drop out of his hand, and simply went on reading.[30](30/ "tree and pragmatics") Then the cocks crowed, and it all vanished\![31](31/ "tree and pragmatics") On the next night it was still more terrible, and on the third night worst of all.[32](32/ "tree and pragmatics") All the executioners came up with their saws, axes, clubs, and wanted to break his bones, put him on the rack, burn him at the stake, and were devising any means of getting the book out of his hand.[33](33/ "tree and pragmatics") It was fearful torture, and the soldier could hardly endure it.[34](34/ "tree and pragmatics") Then the cocks crowed, and the demons vanished\![35](35/ "tree and pragmatics") At the same time the entire kingdom awoke, and in the streets and in the houses people bestirred themselves, and in the palace the Tsarévna and her generals and her suite appeared, and all began to thank the soldier, and they made him their king.[36](36/ "tree and pragmatics") On the next day he married the fair Princess, and lived with her in love and joy.[37](37/ "tree and pragmatics") So the soldier, the peasant’s son, became a Tsar, and he still reigns.[38](38/ "tree and pragmatics") He is a very good king over his subjects, and is very generous to other soldiers.[39](39/ "tree and pragmatics") THE STORY OF TSAR ANGÉY AND HOW HE SUFFERED FOR PRIDE[40](40/ "tree and pragmatics") Once there was in the city of Filuyán\[30\] a Tsar named Angéy, who was very famous.[41](41/ "tree and pragmatics") And, in course of time, it came upon him to stand in the church at the Divine Service at the reading of the sacred Gospel by the priest, when the priest was reading those verses in the Gospel in which it is said: \_He hath put down the mighty from their seat, and hath exalted the humble and meek\_.[42](42/ "tree and pragmatics") And when the Tsar heard this he grew angry, and the Tsar spoke: “This writing is falsely written; the word of the Gospel is untrue.”[43](43/ "tree and pragmatics") And the Tsar said: “I am very rich and famous.[44](44/ "tree and pragmatics") How shall I be put down from my seat and the humble and meek be exalted?”[45](45/ "tree and pragmatics") And then he was filled with fear.[46](46/ "tree and pragmatics") And the Tsar bade the priest be confined in a dungeon, and he bade that page be torn out of the Gospel Book.[47](47/ "tree and pragmatics") And the Tsar went to his palace and began to eat and drink and be merry.[48](48/ "tree and pragmatics") When the Tsar saw a deer in the fields, he went up and he took his young men with him, and he hunted him and almost captured the deer; and the deer was very beautiful.[49](49/ "tree and pragmatics") And the Tsar spoke to his champions: “Do ye stand here.[50](50/ "tree and pragmatics") I will go, and I alone will take the deer alive.”[51](51/ "tree and pragmatics") And he hunted after him, and they swam across the stream.[52](52/ "tree and pragmatics") The Tsar tied his horse to an oak, and tied his garments around him, and swam naked across the stream.[53](53/ "tree and pragmatics") Then the deer became invisible, and an angel of God stood by the Tsar’s horse in the image of Tsar Angéy and spoke to the youths.[54](54/ "tree and pragmatics") “The deer has swum across the stream.”[55](55/ "tree and pragmatics") And he went with the youths into the Tsar’s city to his palace.[56](56/ "tree and pragmatics") But Tsar Angéy went back for his horse, but he could neither find his steed nor his apparel, and he remained there naked and began to think.[57](57/ "tree and pragmatics") And Angéy went up to his city, and he saw shepherds feeding oxen, and he asked them: “Ye lesser brothers, shepherds, where have ye seen my horse and my garments?”[58](58/ "tree and pragmatics") And the shepherds asked him: “Who art thou?”[59](59/ "tree and pragmatics") He said to them: “I am Tsar Angéy.”[60](60/ "tree and pragmatics") And the shepherds spake: “Wicked boaster! how darest thou call thyself the Tsar, for we have seen Tsar Angéy, who has just ridden into his city with five youths!”[61](61/ "tree and pragmatics") And they began to rebuke him and to beat him with whips and scourges.[62](62/ "tree and pragmatics") And the Tsar began to weep and to sob.[63](63/ "tree and pragmatics") The shepherds drove him afar, and he went naked into his city.[64](64/ "tree and pragmatics") The trade folk of the city met him on his way and asked him: “Man, why art thou naked?”[65](65/ "tree and pragmatics") And he said to them: “Robbers have stolen my garments.”[66](66/ "tree and pragmatics") And they gave him a poor and tattered dress.[67](67/ "tree and pragmatics") He took it and bowed down to them, and he went unto his city, and arrived in his town, and he asked a widow if he might stay there the night, and he questioned her, saying: “Say, my mistress, who is the Tsar here?”[68](68/ "tree and pragmatics") And she replied to him: “Art thou not a man of our country?”[69](69/ "tree and pragmatics") And she said: “Our Tsar is Tsar Angéy.”[70](70/ "tree and pragmatics") He asked: “For how many years has he been Tsar?”[71](71/ "tree and pragmatics") And she said: “For years five and thirty.”[72](72/ "tree and pragmatics") He then wrote a letter with his own hand to the Tsarítsa, that he had secret things and thoughts to speak of with her; and he bade a woman take this letter to the queen.[73](73/ "tree and pragmatics") The Tsarítsa received the letter and had it read to her.[74](74/ "tree and pragmatics") He signed it as her husband, Tsar Angéy.[75](75/ "tree and pragmatics") And a great fear fell upon her, and in her fear she began to speak: “How can this poor man name me his wife?[76](76/ "tree and pragmatics") I must inform the Tsar and have him punished.”[77](77/ "tree and pragmatics") And she bade him be beaten with whips mercilessly, without informing the Tsar.[78](78/ "tree and pragmatics") He was pitilessly beaten, and was scarcely left alive, and could hardly leave the town.[79](79/ "tree and pragmatics") He wept and sobbed, and remembered the words of the Gospel: \_He hath put down the mighty from their seat, and hath exalted the humble and meek\_.[80](80/ "tree and pragmatics") And he spoke to a pope of this, how he had profaned the Sacred Book, and had sent the priest into the dark dungeon, and had gone a long, long way.[81](81/ "tree and pragmatics") **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/25/page/2/) - ← previous: [Opening, part 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/24/) - next →: [page 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/25/page/2/) - ↑ back to [Russian Folk-Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/)