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title: But Eva at bay seems suddenly to have changed her character. — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: But Eva at bay seems suddenly to have changed her character. Who acts: Eva. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 72

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But Eva at bay seems suddenly to have changed her character.

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**Who acts:** Eva · **What happens:** seem, change · **To what, where:** character

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., 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 (Eva), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg74323:19:72
# text = But Eva at bay seems suddenly to have changed her character.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	Eva	Eva	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	bay	bay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux	_	_
9	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	xcomp	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | present | Eva at bay |  |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **change** | to-infinitive · perfect | Eva at bay *not said here* | Maria's character |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent character=Patient |

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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.

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**Text:** «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Project Gutenberg book 74323 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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