The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 132

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

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

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.

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	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 night	amod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Good	punct
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 try	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bale	punct
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bale	amod
6	Hay	Hay	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 bale	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Hay	punct
8	bale	bale	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 night	appos
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 bale	punct
10	--	--	PUNCT	_	11 try	punct
11	try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 control	mark
13	control	control	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 try	xcomp
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 feelings	nmod:poss
15	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 control	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 wo	punct
17	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 try	parataxis
18	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 wo	advmod
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 wo	nsubj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 try	punct

Pragmatics

#	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

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: «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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