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The sentence is "I shall be great deal too far off to trouble myself about you ".

The sentence has the context by which I can guess the meaning, but for studying English, I try to make a analysis.

The "off" is big trouble to me, I try to sort the syntax like "I shall be great deal about you, the deal is to trouble me, which is to be off, because of too far or too far away from me.

Is that right? Or is one of the possible meanings?

Is there standard explanation?

I edit the question above

The context is - Curiouser and curiouser!" cried Alice (she was so much surprised that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English). "Now I'm opening out like the largest telescope that ever was! Good-by, feet! Oh, my poor little feet, I wonder who will put on your shoes and stockings for you now, dears? I shall be a great deal too far off to trouble myself about you.

I read again, the last sentence is whether like - I shall be about you, feet, the feet, when she had been her feet, there is a great deal, that's that she cut off or cut off in mind her feet, because she got trouble with the ability of run of feet?

Is that right?

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I shall be a great deal too far off to trouble myself about you.

Translation, chunk by chunk:

[ I shall be ] [ a great deal ] [ too far off ] [ to trouble myself about you. ]
= [ I will be ] [ very ] [ too far away from you ] [ to do anything about you. ]
~ "I will be too very far away from you to do anything about you, my feet."

A great deal is a set phrase, meaning: "a large amount or quantity of something".

Why did Alice say so?

Because she was stretched out, like a telescope (see the image below), by the power of the cake after eating a cake in the previous chapter. (The sentence in question is from the first paragraph of chapter II of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.)


Source: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rgs/alice-II.html

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