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title: That _will_ be a queer thing, to be sure! — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: That _will_ be a queer thing, to be sure! Who acts: _. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 61

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That \_will\_ be a queer thing, to be sure!

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**Who acts:** \_ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** queer thing

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This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (\_), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg11:3:61
# text = That _will_ be a queer thing, to be sure!
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	queer	queer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
12	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | future | that \_ | a queer thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | that \_ *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |

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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:** «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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