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title: She seemed to bend her white corolla in greeting, and like a low mel… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: She seemed to bend her white corolla in greeting, and like a low melody to call down to them, "Pluck me! pluck me!" Who acts: exclamation. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 5, sentence 55

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She seemed to bend her white corolla in greeting, and like a low melody to call down to them, "Pluck me! pluck me!"

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**Who acts:** exclamation · **What happens:** seem, bend, call down, pluck · **To what, where:** white corolla, greeting, dreams, exclamation · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and 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 (exclamation), 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:pg74323:6:55
# text = She seemed to bend her white corolla in greeting, and like a low melody to call down to them, "Pluck me! pluck me!"
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	bend	bend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	corolla	corolla	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	greeting	greeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	melody	melody	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl	_	_
18	down	down	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Pluck	pluck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
26	pluck	pluck	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
27	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past | exclamation |  |  |  |  | like a low melody | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **bend** | to-infinitive | exclamation *not said here* | exclamation's white corolla |  | greeting |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent corolla=Theme in greeting=Location |
| 3 | **call down** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | exclamation *not said here* |  | dreams *= dream* |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient |
| 4 | **pluck** *in a quote* | infinitive | exclamation *not said here* | exclamation |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
| 5 | **pluck** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | exclamation |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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