--- title: At first they dared not go near it, not knowing what it might be, bu… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: At first they dared not go near it, not knowing what it might be, but by-and-by it remained stationary over Squirrel Island, for, as you have guessed already, the light was the glowing of the carbuncle. Who acts: doll, fire, you, light. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/4/62/) [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/) / [The Red Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/) / [The Princess Mayblossom, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/4/) / 62 # The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 62 At first they dared not go near it, not knowing what it might be, but by-and-by it remained stationary over Squirrel Island, for, as you have guessed already, the light was the glowing of the carbuncle. **Who acts:** doll, fire, you, light · **What happens:** go, not know, be, remain, guess, glow · **To what, where:** fire, stationary, Squirrel Island · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doll, fire, you, light), 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:pg540:4:62 # text = At first they dared not go near it, not knowing what it might be, but by-and-by it remained stationary over Squirrel Island, for, as you have guessed already, the light was the glowing of the carbuncle. 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 6 obl _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 4 dared dare VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 6 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 near near ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 knowing know VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 12 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 15 obj _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 18 by by SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ SpaceAfter=No 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 by by SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 remained remain VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 25 stationary stationary NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 26 over over ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 Squirrel Squirrel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 Island Island PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 30 for for SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 as as SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 guessed guess VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 24 conj _ _ 36 already already ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 40 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 glowing glow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 advcl _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 carbuncle carbuncle NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | doll | | | fire | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at first=Location | | 2 | **not** **know** | gerund | doll *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **be** | might | fire | | | | | | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | | 4 | **remain** | past | fire | stationary | | Squirrel Island | | | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stationary=Attribute | | 5 | **guess** | present · perfect | you | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **glow** | past · progressive | the light | | | | | of the carbuncle | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:** «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/4/61/) - next →: [sentence 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/4/63/) - ↑ back to [The Princess Mayblossom, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/4/)