Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 61

That _will_ be a queer thing, to be sure!

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

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.

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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 _	det
2	_	_	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thing	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 thing	aux
4	_	_	PUNCT	_	8 thing	punct
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 thing	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 thing	det
7	queer	queer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 thing	amod
8	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sure	punct
10	to	to	PART	_	12 sure	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 sure	cop
12	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 thing	conj
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 thing	punct

Pragmatics

#	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

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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