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title: “Ah me, how time flies!” — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: “Ah me, how time flies!” A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 143

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“Ah me, how time flies!”

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP. 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:pg16:18:143
# text = “Ah me, how time flies!”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	flies	fly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	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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