--- title: Opening, part 36 — Russian Folk-Tales · full text with trees description: Opening, part 36, «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: So the peasant went home. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/36/) [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 36 # Opening, part 36 Opening, part 36 of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev: the whole text, 184 sentences and 2565 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/pg62509/36/page/2/) So the peasant went home.[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") But Sorrow called him into the inn.[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") He said: “I have no money.”[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") “Never mind, Hodge; what do you want money for?[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") Why, you still have half of a fur; what is the use of it?[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") It will soon be summer, and you will be no longer requiring it.[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") We will go into the inn and drink it up.”[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") So the peasant and Sorrow went into the inn, and they drank up the half-fur.[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") Next day Sorrow groaned and said he had a headache, a fearful headache, owing to last night’s treat.[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") And he enticed the peasant once more to bib wine.[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") “But I have no money!”[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") “There is no need of money.[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") Take your sleigh and your carriage; that will be sufficient for us!”[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") It was not any good.[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") The peasant could not escape Sorrow.[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics") So he took his sleigh and his carriage, drove them to the inn, and drank them with Sorrow.[16](16/ "tree and pragmatics") And in the morning Sorrow groaned yet further, and reduced the master to further drinking; and the peasant drank away his ploughshare and his plough.[17](17/ "tree and pragmatics") One month had gone by, and he had drunk all his property away, pledged his \_izbá\_\[54\] to a neighbour, and spent all the money in the inn.[18](18/ "tree and pragmatics") Then Sorrow came to him once more.[19](19/ "tree and pragmatics") “Let us go to the inn!”[20](20/ "tree and pragmatics") “No, Sorrow, I have no more.”[21](21/ "tree and pragmatics") “Why, your wife has two sarafáns, one will be sufficient for her.”[22](22/ "tree and pragmatics") So the peasant took the sarafán, drank it up; and he thought: “Now I have not anything left, neither house, nor clothes, nor anything else for myself or my wife!”[23](23/ "tree and pragmatics") Next morning Sorrow woke up and saw that there was nothing more he could take.[24](24/ "tree and pragmatics") So he said: “Master, what is your wish?[25](25/ "tree and pragmatics") Go to your neighbour and borrow a pair of oxen and a carriage.”[26](26/ "tree and pragmatics") So the peasant went to his neighbour and said, “Can you lend me a car and a pair of oxen for a short time, and I will do a week’s work for them?”[27](27/ "tree and pragmatics") “What do you want with them?”[28](28/ "tree and pragmatics") “To fetch wood out of the forest.”[29](29/ "tree and pragmatics") “Well, then, take them, but don’t overload them.”[30](30/ "tree and pragmatics") “Oh, of course not, uncle!”[31](31/ "tree and pragmatics") So the peasant took the oxen, went with Sorrow into the carriage, and drove into the field.[32](32/ "tree and pragmatics") “Do you know the big stone in this field?”[33](33/ "tree and pragmatics") Sorrow asked.[34](34/ "tree and pragmatics") “Oh, yes!”[35](35/ "tree and pragmatics") “Well, then, drive up to it.”[36](36/ "tree and pragmatics") So they arrived at the stone and dismounted.[37](37/ "tree and pragmatics") Sorrow bade the peasant lift up the stone, and he aided him in the work.[38](38/ "tree and pragmatics") Under the stone there was a hollow filled with gold.[39](39/ "tree and pragmatics") “Now, what do you see?” said Sorrow.[40](40/ "tree and pragmatics") “Load it all up quickly on to the coach.”[41](41/ "tree and pragmatics") So the peasant set to work sharply, loaded all the gold up, to the very last ducats.[42](42/ "tree and pragmatics") And when he noticed there was not anything left, he said, “Sorrow, is there no more gold there?”[43](43/ "tree and pragmatics") “I don’t see any.”[44](44/ "tree and pragmatics") “Down there in the corner I see something glittering.”[45](45/ "tree and pragmatics") “No; I cannot see anything.”[46](46/ "tree and pragmatics") “Get down into the pit, and you will see it.”[47](47/ "tree and pragmatics") So Sorrow went into the pit, and as soon as he was in the peasant cast the stone in.[48](48/ "tree and pragmatics") “Things will now go better,” said the peasant, “for if I were to take you back with me, Sorrow, you would drink up all of this money!”[49](49/ "tree and pragmatics") So the peasant went home, and he poured out the gold in the cellar.[50](50/ "tree and pragmatics") He took the oxen back to his neighbour, and he began to set up house again, bought a wood, built a big house, and became twice as rich as his brother.[51](51/ "tree and pragmatics") Soon he rode to the town, in order to invite his brother and his sister-in-law to his own name-day.[52](52/ "tree and pragmatics") “Whatever do you mean?” said the rich brother, “why, you have nothing to eat, and you are giving festivals!”[53](53/ "tree and pragmatics") “I had nothing to eat before, but I am now as well off as you are.”[54](54/ "tree and pragmatics") “All right; I will come.”[55](55/ "tree and pragmatics") So next day the rich man, with his wife, went to the name-day; and they saw that the poor starveling had a big new house, much finer than many merchants’ houses.[56](56/ "tree and pragmatics") And the peasant gave them a rich dinner, with all kinds of meat and drink.[57](57/ "tree and pragmatics") So the rich man asked his brother: “Tell me, how did you become so rich?”[58](58/ "tree and pragmatics") Then the peasant told him the bare truth—how Sorrow had followed on his heels and how he and his Sorrow had gone into the inn, and he had drunk away all his goods and chattels to the last shred, until he had only his soul left in his body; and then how Sorrow had showed him the treasure-trove in the field, and he had thus freed himself from the thraldom of Sorrow.[59](59/ "tree and pragmatics") And the rich man became envious and thought: “I will go into the field and will lift the stone up.[60](60/ "tree and pragmatics") Sorrow will rend my brother’s body asunder, so that he cannot then brag of his riches in front of me.”[61](61/ "tree and pragmatics") So he left his wife behind and drove into the field, to the big stone.[62](62/ "tree and pragmatics") He whirled it off to the side and bowed down to see what was under the stone.[63](63/ "tree and pragmatics") And he had hardly bowed down, when Sorrow sprang up and sat on his shoulders.[64](64/ "tree and pragmatics") “O!”[65](65/ "tree and pragmatics") Sorrow cried.[66](66/ "tree and pragmatics") “You wanted to leave me here under the earth.[67](67/ "tree and pragmatics") Now I shall never depart from you.”[68](68/ "tree and pragmatics") “Listen, Sorrow: I was not the person who locked you up here!”[69](69/ "tree and pragmatics") “Who was it, then, if it was not you?”[70](70/ "tree and pragmatics") “My brother.[71](71/ "tree and pragmatics") I came in order to set you free.”[72](72/ "tree and pragmatics") “No, you are lying and deceiving me again.[73](73/ "tree and pragmatics") This time it shall not come off.”[74](74/ "tree and pragmatics") So Sorrow sat fast on the wretched merchant’s shoulders.[75](75/ "tree and pragmatics") He brought Sorrow with him home, and his household went from bad to worse.[76](76/ "tree and pragmatics") Sorrow began early in the morning enticing the merchant into the beerhouse day after day, and much property was drunk away.[77](77/ "tree and pragmatics") “This life is absolutely unbearable!” thought the merchant.[78](78/ "tree and pragmatics") “I have done Sorrow too good a service.[79](79/ "tree and pragmatics") I must now set myself free from him.[80](80/ "tree and pragmatics") How shall I?”[81](81/ "tree and pragmatics") So he thought and he thought it out.[82](82/ "tree and pragmatics") He went into his courtyard, cut two oak wedges, took a new wheel, and knocked one wedge from one end into the axle.[83](83/ "tree and pragmatics") He went up to Sorrow.[84](84/ "tree and pragmatics") “Now, Sorrow, must you lie about like that?”[85](85/ "tree and pragmatics") “What should I be doing?[86](86/ "tree and pragmatics") What else is there to do?”[87](87/ "tree and pragmatics") “Come into the courtyard; let us play hide-and-seek.”[88](88/ "tree and pragmatics") This suited Sorrow down to the ground, and at first the merchant hid and Sorrow found him at once.[89](89/ "tree and pragmatics") Then Sorrow had to hide.[90](90/ "tree and pragmatics") “You will not find me so easily: I can hide myself in any crack.”[91](91/ "tree and pragmatics") “What!” said the merchant.[92](92/ "tree and pragmatics") “Why, you could never get into this wheel, much less into a crack!”[93](93/ "tree and pragmatics") “What\![94](94/ "tree and pragmatics") I could not get into the wheel?[95](95/ "tree and pragmatics") Just look how I manage to hide myself in it!”[96](96/ "tree and pragmatics") So Sorrow crept into the wheel, and the merchant took the other oak wedge and drove it into the hub from the other side, and threw the wheel, with Sorrow inside, into the river.[97](97/ "tree and pragmatics") Sorrow was drowned, and the merchant lived as before.[98](98/ "tree and pragmatics") IVÁSHKO AND THE WISE WOMAN[99](99/ "tree and pragmatics") Once there lived an old man and an old dame, and they only had one little son, and you can’t imagine how they loved him.[100](100/ "tree and pragmatics") One day Iváshechko asked his mother and father, “Please may I go and catch fish?”[101](101/ "tree and pragmatics") “What nonsense! you’re much too little yet: you might get drowned, and that would be a fine story.”[102](102/ "tree and pragmatics") **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/36/page/2/) - ← previous: [Opening, part 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/35/) - next →: [page 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/36/page/2/) - ↑ back to [Russian Folk-Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/)