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title: As so often before, but never again. — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: As so often before, but never again. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 75

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As so often before, but never again.

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg16:11:75
# text = As so often before, but never again.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	often	often	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	before	before	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**Text:** «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Project Gutenberg book 16 (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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