Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 5, sentence 55

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

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.

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

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seemed	nsubj
2	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 bend	mark
4	bend	bend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 seemed	xcomp
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 corolla	nmod:poss
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 corolla	amod
7	corolla	corolla	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bend	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 greeting	case
9	greeting	greeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bend	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 melody	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 melody	cc
12	like	like	ADP	_	15 melody	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 melody	det
14	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 melody	amod
15	melody	melody	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seemed	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 call	mark
17	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 melody	acl
18	down	down	ADP	_	17 call	compound:prt
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 call	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Pluck	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 Pluck	punct
23	Pluck	pluck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 call	conj
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 Pluck	obj
25	!	!	PUNCT	_	26 pluck	punct
26	pluck	pluck	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 seemed	parataxis
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 pluck	obj
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	26 pluck	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 pluck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	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

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: «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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 5, sentence 55

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 5, sentence 55