Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 18

“A nice muddle their slates’ll be in before the trial’s over!” thought Alice.

Who acts: nice muddle, Alice · What happens: be, think · To what, where: trial · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nice muddle, Alice), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 thought	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 muddle	det
3	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 muddle	amod
4	muddle	muddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 over	nsubj
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 slates	nmod:poss
6	slates	slate	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 muddle	obj
7	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 trial	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 trial	cop
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 trial	case
10	before	before	ADP	_	12 trial	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 trial	det
12	trial	trial	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 muddle	conj
13	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 over	cop
14	over	over	ADV	_	17 thought	parataxis
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 over	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 over	punct
17	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 thought	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	future	a nice muddle and the trial not said here	the trial		tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	a nice muddle and the trial		over property	tree rules
3	think speech: other	past	Alice			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme

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: «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Project Gutenberg book 11 (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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