--- title: Opening, part 4 — Russian Folk-Tales · full text with trees description: Opening, part 4, «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: When the master had heard of this, he instantly started out to see the gipsy. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/4/) [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 4 # Opening, part 4 Opening, part 4 of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev: the whole text, 135 sentences and 2539 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/pg62509/4/page/2/) When the master had heard of this, he instantly started out to see the gipsy.[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") “What on earth do you mean, you vile thief, by taking money and not giving up the golden stirrup?”[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") “What golden stirrup?[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") Now do, my lord, think a little.[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") How is it possible for a grey, hoary old peasant like me to possess a golden stirrup?”[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") Then the master became angrier and angrier, but he could not find it.[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") “Well, we will come to court!” he said.[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") “Oh, please,” the gipsy answered, “please think\![8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") How in the world can I come in your company?[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") You are a lord, and I am only a blockhead—I am only a dolt and a mere hind.[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") At least you might dress me in a fine costume if we are to go together.”[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") So the master dressed him in his own dress, and they journeyed together to the town for the case to be tried.[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") When they came into the town, the master said: “I bought of this peasant a golden stirrup.[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") He took the money for it and will not deliver the chattel.”[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") And the peasant answered: “My Lords Justices, do you think it out for yourselves, however could one get a golden stirrup out of a grey-haired peasant?[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics") Why, I have not a single loaf at home.[16](16/ "tree and pragmatics") And I really cannot imagine what this fine gentleman wants of me.[17](17/ "tree and pragmatics") Why, he will even be saying next that I am wearing his clothes.”[18](18/ "tree and pragmatics") “But the dress \_is\_ mine!” the master shrieked out.[19](19/ "tree and pragmatics") “There you are, my Lords Justices!”[20](20/ "tree and pragmatics") After this the case came to an end, and the master went back home without getting anything, and the peasant went on living merrily—living on and gaining nothing but good.[21](21/ "tree and pragmatics") DANÍLO THE UNFORTUNATE[22](22/ "tree and pragmatics") Good Prince Vladímir had many henchmen and serfs in the city of Kíev, and amongst them there was Danílo the Unfortunate, the noble.[23](23/ "tree and pragmatics") And on Sundays Prince Vladímir used to give all his servants goblets filled with wine, but Danílo good hard blows; and on great feast days every one was sated, but Danílo had nothing.[24](24/ "tree and pragmatics") On the eve of Easter Sunday Prince Vladímir summoned Danílo the Unfortunate, and he gave him eighty score of sable skins, and he bade him sew a \_shúba\_\[7\] for the feast: the sable skins were not prepared, and the buttons had not been moulded, and the buttonholes had not been made.[25](25/ "tree and pragmatics") In the buttons he was bidden mould the wild beasts of the wood and to sew into the buttonholes all the seabirds.[26](26/ "tree and pragmatics") Danílo the Unfortunate loathed the task, so he hurled it away, and he went outside.[27](27/ "tree and pragmatics") He went out on his road and way, and shed tears.[28](28/ "tree and pragmatics") An old woman came to meet him.[29](29/ "tree and pragmatics") “Look, Danílo,” she said, “do not rend yourself asunder: why are you crying, Danílo the Unfortunate?”[30](30/ "tree and pragmatics") “Oh, you old fatty!” he exclaimed, “shivers and shakes, quivers and quakes\![31](31/ "tree and pragmatics") Be off! this has nothing to do with you!”[32](32/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he went on a little way and thought, “Why did I bid her remove?”[33](33/ "tree and pragmatics") So he approached her again and said, “\_Bábushka\_,\[8\] little dove, forgive me: this is my trouble.[34](34/ "tree and pragmatics") Prince Vladímir has given me eighty score of sable skins, of which I am to make a \_shúba\_ in the morning.[35](35/ "tree and pragmatics") If only the buttons had been moulded and the silken buttonholes sewn\![36](36/ "tree and pragmatics") But there are to be lions moulded on to the buttons, and there are to be shepherds embroidered on to the buttonholes that should have sung and warbled.[37](37/ "tree and pragmatics") How am I to set about it?[38](38/ "tree and pragmatics") It would be better for me to drink \_vódka\_ behind the counter.”[39](39/ "tree and pragmatics") Then the old woman, with her patched skirt, said, “Oh, I am now ‘\_Bábushka\_’ and your ‘little dove’\![40](40/ "tree and pragmatics") Do you go to the border of the blue sea, and stand in front of the grey oak: at the hour of midnight the blue sea will boil over and Chúdo-Yúda, the Old Man of the Sea, will come out to you: he has no hands, no feet, and he has a grey beard.[41](41/ "tree and pragmatics") Take hold of him by his beard and beat him until he asks you, ‘Why do you beat me, Danílo the Unfortunate?’[42](42/ "tree and pragmatics") Then you are to answer, ‘I am beating you for this reason: let me see the Swan,\[9\] the fair maiden; let her body glint through her wings, and through her body let her bones appear, and from bone to bone let the marrow run like a flowing string of pearls.’”[43](43/ "tree and pragmatics") Then Danílo the Unfortunate went to the blue sea, and he stood in front of the dusky oak: and at midnight the blue sea was disturbed and Chúdo-Yúda, the Old Man of the Sea, appeared before him.[44](44/ "tree and pragmatics") He had no hands, he had no feet, and his beard was grey.[45](45/ "tree and pragmatics") Danílo seized him by his beard and began to beat him on to the grey earth.[46](46/ "tree and pragmatics") Then at last Chúdo-Yúda asked him: “Why do you beat me, Danílo the Unfortunate?”[47](47/ "tree and pragmatics") “For this reason: let me see the Swan, the fair maiden; let her body glint through her wings, and through her body let her bones appear, and from bone to bone let the marrow run like a flowing string of pearls.”[48](48/ "tree and pragmatics") Very soon the Swan, the fair maiden, swam up to the shore, and she spoke in this wise:[49](49/ "tree and pragmatics") “Is it work on your way, Or for sloth do you stay?”[50](50/ "tree and pragmatics") “Oh, Swan, fair maiden, I have a double task: Prince Vladímir has bidden me sew a \_shúba\_, and the sables are not prepared, the buttons are not moulded, and the buttonholes are not sewn.”[51](51/ "tree and pragmatics") “You take me with you, and it will all be done in time.”[52](52/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he began to think in his thoughts, “How shall I take her with me?”[53](53/ "tree and pragmatics") “Now, Danílo, what are you thinking?”[54](54/ "tree and pragmatics") “I must do as you say: I will take you with me.”[55](55/ "tree and pragmatics") So she flapped her wings, and she moved her little head, and said, “Turn to me with your white face; we will build for ourselves a princely house.[56](56/ "tree and pragmatics") Shake your locks, that our house may have rooms.”[57](57/ "tree and pragmatics") Then twelve youths appeared, all of them carpenters, sawyers, stone-hewers; and they set to work, and the house was soon ready.[58](58/ "tree and pragmatics") Then Danílo took her by her right hand, and he kissed her on her sweet lips, and he led her into the princely home.[59](59/ "tree and pragmatics") They sat down at a table, ate and drank.[60](60/ "tree and pragmatics") They refreshed themselves, and their hands met at one table.[61](61/ "tree and pragmatics") “Now, Danílo, go to rest and to bed; think of nothing else; it will all be done.”[62](62/ "tree and pragmatics") So she laid him to sleep and herself went out to the crystal flight of steps.[63](63/ "tree and pragmatics") And she waved her pinions and she shook her little head: “My father,” she cried, “send me your craftsmen!”[64](64/ "tree and pragmatics") And the twelve youths appeared and asked, “Swan-bird, fair maiden, what do you bid us do?”[65](65/ "tree and pragmatics") “Sew me this \_shúba\_ at once: the sables are not prepared, the buttons are not moulded, the buttonholes are not sewn.”[66](66/ "tree and pragmatics") So they set to work: one of them made the sables ready and sewed the \_shúba\_, one of them worked the forge and moulded the buttons, and one of them sewed the buttonholes, and in a minute, wondrously, the \_shúba\_ was made.[67](67/ "tree and pragmatics") Then the Swan-bird, the fair maiden, came up and woke Danílo the Unfortunate: “Arise, my dear friend, the \_shúba\_ is ready, and the church-bells are ringing in the city of Kíev: it is time for you to arise and to prepare for matins.”[68](68/ "tree and pragmatics") Danílo arose, put on the \_shúba\_, and went: she looked out of the window, stayed, gave him a silver staff, and bade him, “When you leave matins, stand on the right side of the choir as the choir leave, raise your hands and strike the sable \_shúba\_, and the birds will sing joyously and the lions roar fearsomely.[69](69/ "tree and pragmatics") Then take the \_shúba\_ from your shoulders and array Prince Vladímir at that instant, lest he forget us.[70](70/ "tree and pragmatics") He will then summon you as a guest, and will give you a glass of wine.[71](71/ "tree and pragmatics") Do not drink the glass to the bottom: if you drink it to the bottom no good will befall you; and do not boast of me: do not boast that we built a house together in a single night.”[72](72/ "tree and pragmatics") **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/4/page/2/) - ← previous: [Opening, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/3/) - next →: [page 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/4/page/2/) - ↑ back to [Russian Folk-Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/)