Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Cave of Hercules., sentence 30

At the approach of any one, he shows his teeth, and makes a hideous growling; but no adventurer after wealth has had courage to brave a contest with this terrific cerberus.

Who acts: dog, adventurer, one · What happens: show, make, have, approach · To what, where: teeth, approach, hideous growling, courage

This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Cave of Hercules.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, adventurer, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	3 approach	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 approach	det
3	approach	approach	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shows	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 one	case
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 one	det
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 approach	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 approach	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 shows	nsubj
9	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 teeth	nmod:poss
11	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 shows	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 makes	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 makes	cc
14	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 shows	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 growling	det
16	hideous	hideous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 growling	amod
17	growling	growling	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 makes	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 had	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 had	cc
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 adventurer	det
21	adventurer	adventurer	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 had	nsubj
22	after	after	ADP	_	23 wealth	case
23	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 adventurer	nmod
24	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 had	aux
25	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 shows	parataxis
26	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 had	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 brave	mark
28	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 had	xcomp
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 contest	det
30	contest	contest	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 brave	nsubj
31	with	with	ADP	_	34 cerberus	case
32	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 cerberus	det
33	terrific	terrific	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 cerberus	amod
34	cerberus	cerberus	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 brave	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 shows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	show	present	dog	dog's teeth	the approach of any one		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tooth=Recipient
2	make	present	dog not said here	a hideous growling			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset growling=Product
3	have	present · perfect	no adventurer after wealth	courage		brave property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Patient
4	approach		any one				nom approach «act intransitive»: of=agent

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: «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Project Gutenberg book 77685 (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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🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Cave of Hercules., sentence 30

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Cave of Hercules., sentence 30