'V adj' - Construction 3

Name: the seem quality construction
Description: Something appears to have a quality.
Verbs: act, appear, feel, look, play, seem, smell, sound, taste
Example: …but somehow he always seemed older. (BNC)
Membership: quality
Semantic fields and roles: Field: Equivalence. Roles: NP1: Carrier; Adj: Attribute
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