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title: Good-night, old Hay-bale!--try to control your feelings, won’t you? — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Good-night, old Hay-bale!--try to control your feelings, won’t you? Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 132

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Good-night, old Hay-bale!--try to control your feelings, won’t you?

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** try, control · **To what, where:** feelings

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg236:20:132
# text = Good-night, old Hay-bale!--try to control your feelings, won’t you?
1	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	Hay	Hay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	bale	bale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	try	try	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	control	control	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	feelings	feeling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | night |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **control** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | your feelings |  |  |  |  | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Theme |

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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:** «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 236 (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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