Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 54

Besides that, the sisters plagued her in all sorts of ways, and laughed at her.

Who acts: sisters · What happens: plague, laugh, sort · To what, where: wife, sorts, ways

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Miser in the Bush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sisters), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Besides	besides	ADP	_	2 that	case
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 plagued	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 that	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sisters	det
5	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 plagued	nsubj
6	plagued	plague	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 plagued	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 sorts	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 sorts	det
10	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 plagued	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 ways	case
12	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sorts	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 laughed	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 laughed	cc
15	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 plagued	conj
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 her	case
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 laughed	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 plagued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	plague	past	the sisters	wife	all sorts of ways	besides that	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer
2	laugh	past	the sisters not said here			at wife	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sort			ways			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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