A young girl chased a dog with her umbrella. The sentence was analyzed for its parts of speech and syntactic structure. Noun phrases can be expanded with modifiers like adjectives and prepositional phrases.

4. SENTENCE
A young girl with an umbrella chased the dog.
chased the dogA young girl with an umbrella
the dogchasedwith an umbrellaA young girl

5. dogchase
A young girl with an umbrella chased the dog
A young girl with an umbrella past the
young girl umbrellaan

7. S
VP
Tense V
N
Past
det.
Art.
Adj.
dogthechasegirlyoungA with an umbrella
Art.
N Ndet.det.
NPVG
NP
NP Prep P
Prep NP

8. Expansion of a noun phrase
head word modifiers
daffodils
Yellow daffodils
The yellow daffodils
The yellow daffodils with a lovely look

9. IC Analysis of Noun phrase
NP
withdaffodilsyellowThe a lovely look
NP Prep. P
det.
art. Adj.
N Prep. NP
Adj. Ndet.