--- title: I could buy a grand house and all, and live like the Queen herself,… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: I could buy a grand house and all, and live like the Queen herself, and not do a stroke of work all day, but just sit by the fire with a cup of tea; or maybe I'll give it to the priest to keep for me, and get a piece as I'm wanting; or maybe I'll just bury it in a hole at the garden-foot, and put a --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/19/106/) [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/) / [More English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/) / [More English Fairy Tales, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/19/) / 106 # More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 106 I could buy a grand house and all, and live like the Queen herself, and not do a stroke of work all day, but just sit by the fire with a cup of tea; or maybe I'll give it to the priest to keep for me, and get a piece as I'm wanting; or maybe I'll just bury it in a hole at the garden-foot, and put a bit on the chimney, between the chiney teapot and the spoons--for ornament like. **Who acts:** I · **What happens:** buy, live, not do, sit, give, keep · **To what, where:** grand house, Mercy, stroke, priest, piece, hole This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg14241:19:106 # text = I could buy a grand house and all, and live like the Queen herself, and not do a stroke of work all day, but just sit by the fire with a cup of tea; or maybe I'll give it to the priest to keep for me, and get a piece as I'm wanting; or maybe I'll just bury it in a hole at the garden-foot, and put a bit on the chimney, between the chiney teapot and the spoons--for ornament like. 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 buy buy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 grand grand ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 12 like like ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 stroke stroke NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 24 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 25 det _ _ 25 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 but but CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 just just ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 sit sit VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 30 by by ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 cup cup NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 tea tea NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ; ; PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 39 or or CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 40 maybe maybe ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 41 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 43 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 conj _ _ 44 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 obj _ _ 45 to to ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 priest priest NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ _ 48 to to PART TO _ 49 mark _ _ 49 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 43 advcl _ _ 50 for for ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 51 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 49 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 52 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 53 and and CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ _ 54 get get VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 55 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 56 det _ _ 56 piece piece NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 obj _ _ 57 as as SCONJ IN _ 60 mark _ _ 58 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 60 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 59 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 60 aux _ _ 60 wanting want VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 54 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 61 ; ; PUNCT , _ 67 punct _ _ 62 or or CCONJ CC _ 67 cc _ _ 63 maybe maybe ADV RB _ 67 advmod _ _ 64 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 67 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 65 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 67 aux _ _ 66 just just ADV RB _ 67 advmod _ _ 67 bury bury VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 68 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 67 obj _ _ 69 in in ADP IN _ 71 case _ _ 70 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 71 det _ _ 71 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 67 obl _ _ 72 at at ADP IN _ 76 case _ _ 73 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 76 det _ _ 74 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 76 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 75 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 74 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 76 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 71 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 77 , , PUNCT , _ 79 punct _ _ 78 and and CCONJ CC _ 79 cc _ _ 79 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 80 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 81 det _ _ 81 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 79 obj _ _ 82 on on ADP IN _ 84 case _ _ 83 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 84 det _ _ 84 chimney chimney NOUN NN Number=Sing 79 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 85 , , PUNCT , _ 89 punct _ _ 86 between between ADP IN _ 89 case _ _ 87 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 89 det _ _ 88 chiney chiney NOUN NN Number=Sing 89 compound _ _ 89 teapot teapot NOUN NN Number=Sing 79 parataxis _ _ 90 and and CCONJ CC _ 92 cc _ _ 91 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 92 det _ _ 92 spoons spoon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 89 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 93 -- -- PUNCT , _ 95 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 94 for for ADP IN _ 95 case _ _ 95 ornament ornament NOUN NN Number=Sing 89 conj _ _ 96 like like INTJ UH _ 95 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 97 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **buy** | could | I | a grand house | | | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme | | 2 | **live** | present | I *not said here* | Mercy | | | | like the Queen | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **not** **do** | infinitive | I *not said here* | a stroke of work | | | day | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stroke=Eventuality | | 4 | **sit** | infinitive | | | | | | by the fire; with a cup of tea | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location | | 5 | **give** | future | I | stroke | the priest | | | maybe *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to priest=Recipient | | 6 | **keep** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | | for me | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **get** | infinitive | | a piece | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer piece=Stimulus | | 8 | **want** | present · progressive | I | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 9 | **bury** | future | I | stroke | | a hole at the garden foot | | maybe *property* | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in hole=Destination | | 10 | **put** | infinitive | I *not said here* | a bit | | the chimney | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent bit=Theme on chimney=Destination | | 11 | **stroke** | | | work | | | | | nom stroke «act transitive»: of=patient | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/19/105/) - next →: [sentence 107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/19/107/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/19/)