--- title: Opening, part 7 — Russian Folk-Tales · full text with trees description: Opening, part 7, «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: BÁBA YAGÁ AND ZAMORÝSHEK --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/7/) [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 7 # Opening, part 7 Opening, part 7 of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev: the whole text, 142 sentences and 2574 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/pg62509/7/page/2/) BÁBA YAGÁ AND ZAMORÝSHEK[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") Once upon a time there lived an old man and his old wife, and they had no children, and what on earth did they not do to get them\![2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") How did not they beseech God\![3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") But for all that the wife bore no children.[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") One day the old man went into the forest to look for mushrooms, and an old gaffer met him.[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") “I know your thoughts.[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") You are thinking of children,” he said.[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") “Go to the village and collect one little egg from every house and put a brood hen over them, and, what will ensue, you will yourself see.”[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") Now there were forty-one houses in the village.[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") The old man went and collected the eggs and put a brood hen over them.[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") Two weeks later he and his wife went to see, and they found that there were children born of the eggs, and they looked again and they found that forty of the children were fine, strong and healthy, and there was one who was a weakling.[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") So the old man gave them names.[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") But he had no name left for the last, so he called him Zamorýshek.[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") \[14\] And these children grew up not by days, but by hours, and they shot up fast and began to work and to help the mother and father.[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") The forty of them used to go into the fields whilst Zamorýshek stayed at home.[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics") When the harvesting season came on the forty began making the hayricks, and in a single week all the ricks were put up.[16](16/ "tree and pragmatics") So they came back home to the village, lay down, slept, and ate of the fare God provided.[17](17/ "tree and pragmatics") The old man looked at them and said, “Young and green, goes far, sleeps sound, and leaves the work undone!”[18](18/ "tree and pragmatics") “You go and see, \_bátyushka\_,”\[15\] said Zamorýshek.[19](19/ "tree and pragmatics") So the old man went into the fields and saw forty ricks standing.[20](20/ "tree and pragmatics") “Ah, these are fine boys of mine\![21](21/ "tree and pragmatics") Look at all they have harvested in one week!”[22](22/ "tree and pragmatics") Next day he went out again to gloat on his possessions, and found one rick was a-missing.[23](23/ "tree and pragmatics") He came home and said, “One rick has vanished.”[24](24/ "tree and pragmatics") “Never mind, \_bátyushka\_,” said Zamorýshek, “we will catch the thief: give me a hundred roubles, and I will do the deed.”[25](25/ "tree and pragmatics") Then Zamorýshek went to the smith and asked for a chain big enough to cover a man from head to foot.[26](26/ "tree and pragmatics") And the smith said, “Certainly.”[27](27/ "tree and pragmatics") “Very well, then: if the chain hold, I will give you one hundred roubles; if it break, your labour’s lost.”[28](28/ "tree and pragmatics") The smith forged the chain; Zamorýshek put it round him, stretched it, and it broke.[29](29/ "tree and pragmatics") So the smith made a second iron chain, Zamorýshek put it round his body, and it again broke.[30](30/ "tree and pragmatics") Then the smith made a third chain, three times as strong, and Zamorýshek could not break it.[31](31/ "tree and pragmatics") Zamorýshek then went and sat under the hayrick and waited.[32](32/ "tree and pragmatics") At midnight a sudden storm rose and the sea raged, and a strange nag rose out of the sea, ran up to the rick and began to eat it.[33](33/ "tree and pragmatics") Zamorýshek bound the neck round with chains and mounted her.[34](34/ "tree and pragmatics") The mare began to gallop over the valleys and over the hills, and she reared, but she could not dislodge the rider; and at last she stopped and said in a human voice: “Now, good youth, now you can mount me, you may become master of my foals.”[35](35/ "tree and pragmatics") Then she ran under the sea and neighed, and the sea opened and up ran forty-one foals; and they were such fine foals, every single horse was better than every other horse.[36](36/ "tree and pragmatics") You might go round the entire earth and never see any horses as good.[37](37/ "tree and pragmatics") Next morning the old man heard neighing outside his door, and wondered what the noise was, and there was his son Zamorýshek with the entire drove.[38](38/ "tree and pragmatics") “Good!” he said.[39](39/ "tree and pragmatics") “Now, my sons, ye had better go and hunt for brides.”[40](40/ "tree and pragmatics") So off they went.[41](41/ "tree and pragmatics") The mother and father blessed them, and the brothers set forth on their distant way and road.[42](42/ "tree and pragmatics") They rode far in the white world in order to seek their brides.[43](43/ "tree and pragmatics") For they would not marry separately, and what mother could they find who should boast of having forty-one daughters?[44](44/ "tree and pragmatics") And they went across thirteen countries, and they then saw a steep mountain which they ascended, and there there stood a white stone palace with high walls round and iron columns and gates where they counted forty-one columns.[45](45/ "tree and pragmatics") So they tied their knightly horses to each of the stakes, and they entered.[46](46/ "tree and pragmatics") Then the Bába Yagá met them and said: “O ye unlooked-for, uninvited guests, how did you dare without leave to tie your horses to my stakes?”[47](47/ "tree and pragmatics") “Come, old lady, what are you complaining of?[48](48/ "tree and pragmatics") First of all give us food and drink, take us into the bath, and thereafter ask us for our news, and question us.”[49](49/ "tree and pragmatics") So the Bába Yagá served them with food and drink, conducted them to the bath, and then afterwards she asked them: “Have ye come to do deeds, doughty youths, or to flee from deeds?”[50](50/ "tree and pragmatics") “We have come to do deeds, grandmother,” they said.[51](51/ "tree and pragmatics") “What have ye come to seek?”[52](52/ "tree and pragmatics") “We are seeking brides.”[53](53/ "tree and pragmatics") Then she replied, “I have daughters.”[54](54/ "tree and pragmatics") And she burst into the lofty rooms and brought out her forty-one daughters.[55](55/ "tree and pragmatics") They were then betrothed, and began to feast together and celebrate the marriage.[56](56/ "tree and pragmatics") When the evening came Zamorýshek went to look at his horse, and the good horse saw him and spoke with a human voice.[57](57/ "tree and pragmatics") “See to this, my master: when you lie down with your young wives, dress them in your clothes, and put on your wives’ clothes, otherwise you will all be killed.”[58](58/ "tree and pragmatics") Then they all went and lay down, and they all went to sleep, only Zamorýshek took care to keep his eyes open.[59](59/ "tree and pragmatics") And at midnight Bába Yagá cried out in a loud voice: “Ho, ye my faithful servants\![60](60/ "tree and pragmatics") Will ye cut off the heads of my insolent and uninvited guests?”[61](61/ "tree and pragmatics") And so the servants ran and cut off the daughters’ heads.[62](62/ "tree and pragmatics") Zamorýshek roused his brothers and told them what had happened.[63](63/ "tree and pragmatics") So they took the heads with them, put them on the forty-one stakes, armed themselves and galloped off.[64](64/ "tree and pragmatics") In the morning the Bába Yagá got up, looked through her little window, and saw the heads on the stakes.[65](65/ "tree and pragmatics") She was very angry, and she called for her fiery shield, and leapt out on the chase, and set to waving her fiery shield in all directions to the four winds.[66](66/ "tree and pragmatics") Whither should the youths betake themselves for concealment?[67](67/ "tree and pragmatics") In front of them there was the blue sea and behind them the Bába Yagá.[68](68/ "tree and pragmatics") And she burned everything in front of her with her fiery shield.[69](69/ "tree and pragmatics") They might have had to die, but Zamorýshek was an inventive youth, and had not forgotten to take Bába Yagá’s handkerchief, and he shook the handkerchief in front, and so built a bridge across all the width of the blue sea, and the doughty youths crossed the sea safely.[70](70/ "tree and pragmatics") Then Zamorýshek shook the handkerchief on the left-hand side and the bridge vanished.[71](71/ "tree and pragmatics") The Bába Yagá had to turn back, but the brothers went home safely.[72](72/ "tree and pragmatics") THE MIRACULOUS HEN[73](73/ "tree and pragmatics") Beyond thrice-nine lands, in the thrice-tenth realm—it was not in our kingdom—once an old man and an old woman lived in great need and poverty.[74](74/ "tree and pragmatics") They had two sons, who were very young and as yet of no use for field work.[75](75/ "tree and pragmatics") So the old man got up himself, and himself did all the work; he went out and looked after the labourers, and for all that he could only earn a few pence.[76](76/ "tree and pragmatics") **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/7/page/2/) - ← previous: [Opening, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/6/) - next →: [page 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/7/page/2/) - ↑ back to [Russian Folk-Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/)