--- title: Opening, part 3 — Russian Folk-Tales · full text with trees · page 2 description: Opening, part 3, «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: “Now! --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/3/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 3 # Opening, part 3 · page 2 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/3/) **2** Then, three days later, the dog went to the courtyard and saw that the cat was dying of starvation.[100](../../100/ "tree and pragmatics") “What is the matter?” he said.[101](../../101/ "tree and pragmatics") “I am dying of starvation: I was able to have enough whilst you were feeding me.”[102](../../102/ "tree and pragmatics") “Come with me.”[103](../../103/ "tree and pragmatics") So they went away.[104](../../104/ "tree and pragmatics") The dog went on, until he saw a drove of horses, and he began to scratch the earth with his paws and asked the cat, “Cat, O cat, are my eyes beautiful?”[105](../../105/ "tree and pragmatics") “No, they are not beautiful.”[106](../../106/ "tree and pragmatics") “Say that they are beautiful!”[107](../../107/ "tree and pragmatics") So the cat said, “They are beautiful.”[108](../../108/ "tree and pragmatics") “Cat, O cat, is my fur dishevelled?”[109](../../109/ "tree and pragmatics") “No it is not dishevelled.”[110](../../110/ "tree and pragmatics") “Say, you idiot, that it is dishevelled.”[111](../../111/ "tree and pragmatics") “Well, it is dishevelled.”[112](../../112/ "tree and pragmatics") “Cat, O cat, is my tail raised?”[113](../../113/ "tree and pragmatics") “No, it is not raised.”[114](../../114/ "tree and pragmatics") “Say, you fool, that it is raised.”[115](../../115/ "tree and pragmatics") Then the dog made a dash at a mare, but the mare kicked him back, and the dog died.[116](../../116/ "tree and pragmatics") So the cat said, “Now I can see that his eyes are very red, and his fur is dishevelled, and his tail is raised.[117](../../117/ "tree and pragmatics") Good-bye, brother Dog, I will go home to die.”[118](../../118/ "tree and pragmatics") EGÓRI THE BRAVE AND THE GIPSY[119](../../119/ "tree and pragmatics") In a certain kingdom, in a certain land, there was a gipsy who had a wife and seven children, and he lived so poorly that at last there was nothing in the house to eat or to drink—not even a crust of bread.[120](../../120/ "tree and pragmatics") He was too idle to work, and too much of a coward to thieve.[121](../../121/ "tree and pragmatics") So what could he do?[122](../../122/ "tree and pragmatics") Well, the peasant went on the road and stood pondering.[123](../../123/ "tree and pragmatics") At this time Egóri the Brave was passing by.[124](../../124/ "tree and pragmatics") “Hail!” said the peasant.[125](../../125/ "tree and pragmatics") “Whither are you faring?”[126](../../126/ "tree and pragmatics") “To God.”[127](../../127/ "tree and pragmatics") “Why?”[128](../../128/ "tree and pragmatics") “With a message from men wherewith each man should live, and wherewith each man should busy himself.”[129](../../129/ "tree and pragmatics") “Will you, then, send in a report about me to the Lord?” the peasant said, “what He wishes me to engage in?”[130](../../130/ "tree and pragmatics") “Very well—I will hand in a report,” Egóri said, and he went on his road.[131](../../131/ "tree and pragmatics") So there the peasant stood, waiting for him—waiting.[132](../../132/ "tree and pragmatics") And when at last he saw Egóri on his way back, he asked him at once: “Did you hand in a report about me?”[133](../../133/ "tree and pragmatics") “No,” said Egóri; “I forgot.”[134](../../134/ "tree and pragmatics") So the peasant set out on his road a second time, and he again met Egóri, who was going to God on an errand.[135](../../135/ "tree and pragmatics") So the gipsy asked him once more: “Do please hand in a request on my behalf.”[136](../../136/ "tree and pragmatics") “All right,” said Egóri.[137](../../137/ "tree and pragmatics") And he forgot again.[138](../../138/ "tree and pragmatics") And so once more the peasant set out on the road, and once more met Egóri.[139](../../139/ "tree and pragmatics") And he asked him for the third time: “Do please speak on my behalf to God!”[140](../../140/ "tree and pragmatics") “Yes—all right!”[141](../../141/ "tree and pragmatics") “Will you forget again?”[142](../../142/ "tree and pragmatics") “No, I shall not forget this time.”[143](../../143/ "tree and pragmatics") Only the gipsy did not believe him.[144](../../144/ "tree and pragmatics") “Give me,” he said, “your golden stirrup.[145](../../145/ "tree and pragmatics") I will keep it until you come back; otherwise, you may once more forget.”[146](../../146/ "tree and pragmatics") Egóri untied his golden stirrup, gave it to the gipsy, and rode on farther with a single stirrup.[147](../../147/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he reached God, and he began to ask wherewith each man should live, and wherewith each man should busy himself.[148](../../148/ "tree and pragmatics") In each case he received the right order, and he was starting back.[149](../../149/ "tree and pragmatics") But as soon as ever he mounted, he glanced down at the stirrup and recollected the gipsy.[150](../../150/ "tree and pragmatics") So he ran back to see God and said: “Oh, I forgot.[151](../../151/ "tree and pragmatics") Whilst I was coming here I met a gipsy on the way, and he asked me what he should do.”[152](../../152/ "tree and pragmatics") “Oh, tell the gipsy,” the Lord said, “that his trade is from whomsoever he take and steal, he, then, shall cheat and perjure himself.”[153](../../153/ "tree and pragmatics") So Egóri went and mounted his horse, came up to the gipsy, and told him: “I shall now tell you the truth.[154](../../154/ "tree and pragmatics") If you had not taken the stirrup, I should have forgotten all about it.”[155](../../155/ "tree and pragmatics") “I thought as much,” said the gipsy.[156](../../156/ "tree and pragmatics") “Now, for all eternity, you cannot forget me if you only look down at your stirrup, and I shall be always in your mind.[157](../../157/ "tree and pragmatics") Well, what did the Lord say to you?”[158](../../158/ "tree and pragmatics") “Oh, He told me from whomsoever you take or steal you will cheat and perjure yourself; that will be your trade.”[159](../../159/ "tree and pragmatics") “Thank you very much,” said the gipsy, and he bowed down to the ground, and went home.[160](../../160/ "tree and pragmatics") “Where are you going?” said Egóri.[161](../../161/ "tree and pragmatics") “Give me my golden stirrup!”[162](../../162/ "tree and pragmatics") “What stirrup?”[163](../../163/ "tree and pragmatics") “Didn’t you take one from me?”[164](../../164/ "tree and pragmatics") “How in the world could I take one from you?[165](../../165/ "tree and pragmatics") This is the first time I have seen you, and I have not even had a stirrup.[166](../../166/ "tree and pragmatics") Before God!—I never have!”[167](../../167/ "tree and pragmatics") And so the gipsy perjured himself.[168](../../168/ "tree and pragmatics") What could he do?[169](../../169/ "tree and pragmatics") He could struggle and fight it out, Egóri could, and so he did; but it was all no good.[170](../../170/ "tree and pragmatics") It is perfectly true, and the gipsy spoke the truth: “If I had not given him the stirrup!—if I had not only known him\![171](../../171/ "tree and pragmatics") Now I shall forget him no more.”[172](../../172/ "tree and pragmatics") So the gipsy took the golden stirrup and began hawking it.[173](../../173/ "tree and pragmatics") And as he went on his way, a fine lord came and met him.[174](../../174/ "tree and pragmatics") “Hullo, gipsy!” he said.[175](../../175/ "tree and pragmatics") “Will you sell the stirrup?”[176](../../176/ "tree and pragmatics") “Yes—all right!”[177](../../177/ "tree and pragmatics") “What will you take?”[178](../../178/ "tree and pragmatics") “Fifteen hundred roubles.”[179](../../179/ "tree and pragmatics") “Much too dear, isn’t that?”[180](../../180/ "tree and pragmatics") “Well, you see, it is all gold.”[181](../../181/ "tree and pragmatics") “Very well!” said his lordship; and he put his hand into his pocket, and he only had a thousand.[182](../../182/ "tree and pragmatics") “You just take this thousand, gipsy, and then give me the stirrup: I will send you on the odd five hundred.”[183](../../183/ "tree and pragmatics") “Oh, no, my lord\![184](../../184/ "tree and pragmatics") One thousand roubles I will certainly take, but I shall not give up the stirrup.[185](../../185/ "tree and pragmatics") When you carry out your part of the bargain, then you shall receive the stirrup.”[186](../../186/ "tree and pragmatics") So the lord gave him the thousand, and he went home.[187](../../187/ "tree and pragmatics") The very instant he got there he took out five hundred roubles, and sent his man up to the gipsy, telling him to give the money to him and to take the golden stirrup.[188](../../188/ "tree and pragmatics") When his lordship’s groom came to the gipsy’s \_izbá\_,\[5\] “Hail, gipsy!” he said.[189](../../189/ "tree and pragmatics") “How fare you, good man?[190](../../190/ "tree and pragmatics") I have brought you the money from his lordship.”[191](../../191/ "tree and pragmatics") “Well, give it me if you have brought it.”[192](../../192/ "tree and pragmatics") So the gipsy took the five hundred roubles, and gave the man a glass of wine, and then another, until the man had his fill.[193](../../193/ "tree and pragmatics") And when he had had his fill the groom began to make his way home, and said to the peasant: “Now give me the golden stirrup.”[194](../../194/ "tree and pragmatics") “What?”[195](../../195/ "tree and pragmatics") “Yes—the stirrup which you sold my master.”[196](../../196/ "tree and pragmatics") “What, \_I\_ sold it\![197](../../197/ "tree and pragmatics") I never had a golden stirrup!”[198](../../198/ "tree and pragmatics") “Well, then, give me the money back.”[199](../../199/ "tree and pragmatics") “What money?”[200](../../200/ "tree and pragmatics") “But I just gave you five hundred roubles!”[201](../../201/ "tree and pragmatics") “I have not even seen a \_grívennik\_\[6\]—never in my life\![202](../../202/ "tree and pragmatics") I looked after you kindly, simply for the sake of our Lord, and not in the least in order to get any money out of you.”[203](../../203/ "tree and pragmatics") And in this manner the gipsy had disavowed everything.[204](../../204/ "tree and pragmatics") [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/3/) **2** - ← previous: [page 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/3/) - next →: [Opening, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/4/) - ↑ back to [Russian Folk-Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/)