--- title: Opening, part 29 — Russian Folk-Tales · full text with trees description: Opening, part 29, «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: Donotknow learned of this, shook off the bull’s hide, took off the bladder, summoned his good horse, and leapt to the field. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/29/) [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 29 # Opening, part 29 Opening, part 29 of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev: the whole text, 116 sentences and 2533 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/pg62509/29/page/2/) Donotknow learned of this, shook off the bull’s hide, took off the bladder, summoned his good horse, and leapt to the field.[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") One knight came to meet him.[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") They met in combat, greeted each other and set at each other with their lances.[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") The knight struck Donotknow so doughtily that he could hardly hold on by one stirrup.[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he got up, flew like a youth, struck off the knight’s head, seized him, and threw him over, saying, “This is how all of your heads shall fly.”[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") Then another knight came out, and it happened likewise with him; and a third came, and Donotknow fought with him for one whole hour.[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") The knight cut his hand and drew blood, but Donotknow cut off his head and threw it with the rest.[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") Then all of the Arab host trembled and turned back.[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") Just then the King, with the Princesses, was standing on the town wall; and the youngest Princess saw that blood was flowing from the valiant champion’s hand, took a kerchief off her neck and bound up the wound herself; and the King summoned him as a guest.[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") “I will come one day,” said Donotknow, “but not this time.”[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") So he leapt into the open field, dismissed his horse, dressed himself in his oxhide, put the bladder on his head, and began walking up and down the garden like a scarecrow.[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") Some time went by, not much, not little, and the King gave his two elder daughters away to famous Tsarévichi.[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") He was making ready for a great celebration, and the guests came to walk in the garden; and they saw Donotknow and asked, “What sort of a monster is this?”[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") So the King said, “This is Donotknow: I am using him as a scarecrow: he keeps the birds off my apple trees.”[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") But the youngest daughter looked at Donotknow’s hand and observed her kerchief on it, blushed and never said a word.[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics") From that time she began to walk into the garden and to gaze on Donotknow, and became thoughtful, never giving heed to the festivals and to the merriment.[16](16/ "tree and pragmatics") “Where are you always going, my daughter?” asked her father.[17](17/ "tree and pragmatics") “Oh, father, I have lived so many years with you, I have so often walked in the garden, and I have never seen such a delightful bird as I saw there just now!”[18](18/ "tree and pragmatics") Then she began to ask her father to give her his blessing and to wed her to Donotknow.[19](19/ "tree and pragmatics") And for all the father might do to convince her, she insisted.[20](20/ "tree and pragmatics") “If you will not give me to him, I will remain unmarried all my life and will seek no other man.”[21](21/ "tree and pragmatics") So the father agreed and he betrothed them.[22](22/ "tree and pragmatics") Soon afterwards the Arab Prince wrote to him for the third time and asked for the hand of his youngest daughter.[23](23/ "tree and pragmatics") “If you will not consent, I will consume all of your kingdom with fire, and I will take her by main force.”[24](24/ "tree and pragmatics") Then the King answered, “My daughter is already promised: if you wish, come yourself and you will see.”[25](25/ "tree and pragmatics") So the Prince came, and when he saw what a monster was betrothed to the fair Princess he thought he would slay Donotknow, and he summoned him to mortal combat.[26](26/ "tree and pragmatics") Donotknow shook off his oxhide, took the bladder from his head, summoned his good horse and rode out, so fair a youth as no tale can tell and no pen can write.[27](27/ "tree and pragmatics") They met in the open field, in the wide plains, and the list lasted long.[28](28/ "tree and pragmatics") Iván the merchant’s son killed the Arab Prince.[29](29/ "tree and pragmatics") Then at last the King recognised that Donotknow was not a monster but a splendid and handsome knight, and he made him his heir.[30](30/ "tree and pragmatics") Iván the merchant’s son lived on in his kingdom for good and lived all for happiness, took his own father to stay with him, but consigned his stepmother to punishment.[31](31/ "tree and pragmatics") THE SEA TSAR AND VASILÍSA THE WISE[32](32/ "tree and pragmatics") Once a Tsar lived with his Tsarítsa beyond thrice-nine lands in the thrice-tenth kingdom.[33](33/ "tree and pragmatics") He liked to go hunting and shooting the wild beasts.[34](34/ "tree and pragmatics") One day the Tsar went out hunting, and saw a young eagle sitting on an oak; and he was just going to shoot him down, when the eagle begged him, “Do not shoot me, Tsar my master, rather take me to yourself; and at some time or other I shall be of service to you.”[35](35/ "tree and pragmatics") And the Tsar thought and thought, and he said, “How can you be of any service to me?”[36](36/ "tree and pragmatics") And again he wanted to shoot him.[37](37/ "tree and pragmatics") And the eagle said to him a second time, “Do not shoot, Tsar my master, rather take me to yourself; and some day I shall be of service to you.”[38](38/ "tree and pragmatics") And the Tsar thought and thought, and again he could not imagine whatever service the eagle would be to him, and he still wanted to shoot him.[39](39/ "tree and pragmatics") So for the third time the eagle spoke to him, “Do not shoot me, Tsar my master, rather take me to yourself, and feed me for three years; and at some time I shall be of service to you.”[40](40/ "tree and pragmatics") So the Tsar was mollified, and took the eagle to himself, and he fed him one year and another year, and the eagle ate up so much, ate up all the cattle; and the Tsar had neither a sheep nor a cow left.[41](41/ "tree and pragmatics") Then the eagle said to him, “Let me go free.”[42](42/ "tree and pragmatics") And the eagle tried his wings, but no, he could not fly; and he asked him, “Now, Tsar my master, you have fed me for two years, even as you said; now feed me one year more.[43](43/ "tree and pragmatics") Only go on and feed me, and you will not lose.”[44](44/ "tree and pragmatics") So the Tsar did this.[45](45/ "tree and pragmatics") “Go and hire cattle and feed me; you will not lose.”[46](46/ "tree and pragmatics") So the Tsar did this.[47](47/ "tree and pragmatics") From all countries round he went and hired cattle, and every one helped him to feed the eagle.[48](48/ "tree and pragmatics") And afterwards he let him go free at his own will.[49](49/ "tree and pragmatics") Then the eagle rose higher and higher, and he flew and flew, and then he came down to earth and said, “Now, Tsar my master, come and sit on me: we will fly together.”[50](50/ "tree and pragmatics") So the Tsar sat on the eagle and they flew on and on.[51](51/ "tree and pragmatics") Maybe much time went by, maybe little, but they at last flew to the border of the blue sea.[52](52/ "tree and pragmatics") Then the eagle shook the Tsar off himself, and he fell into the sea, and he was wetted up to his knees, only the eagle did not let him drown, but supported him on his wing, and asked, “Why, Tsar my lord, why are you frightened?”[53](53/ "tree and pragmatics") “I was frightened,” said the Tsar, “lest I should be drowned.”[54](54/ "tree and pragmatics") And so once more they flew on, until they came to another sea.[55](55/ "tree and pragmatics") And the eagle shook the Tsar off into the middle of the sea, and the Tsar was wetted up to his waist, but the eagle supported him by his wing and asked him, “Why, Tsar my master, why are you frightened?”[56](56/ "tree and pragmatics") “I was frightened,” said the Tsar, “and I was thinking, it may be you are never going to drag me out.”[57](57/ "tree and pragmatics") And again they flew on, and they arrived at the third sea, and the eagle threw the Tsar into the great depths, and he was immersed in the water up to his very neck.[58](58/ "tree and pragmatics") Again, the third time the eagle held him by the wing and asked him, “Why, Tsar my master, why are you frightened?”[59](59/ "tree and pragmatics") **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/29/page/2/) - ← previous: [Opening, part 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/28/) - next →: [page 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/29/page/2/) - ↑ back to [Russian Folk-Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/)