HOW TO PARSE ARTICLES
198. In parsing the article, tell--
(1) What word it limits.
(2) Which of the above uses it has.
Exercise
Parse the articles in the following:--
1. It is like gathering a few pebbles off the ground, or bottling
a little air in a phial, when the whole earth and the whole
atmosphere are ours.
2. Aristeides landed on the island with a body of Hoplites,
defeated the Persians and cut them to pieces to a man.
3. The wild fire that lit the eye of an Achilles can gleam no
more.
4. But it is not merely the neighborhood of the cathedral that is
mediæval; the whole city is of a piece.
5. To the herdsman among his cattle in remote woods, to the
craftsman in his rude workshop, to the great and to the little, a
new light has arisen.
6. When the manners of Loo are heard of, the stupid become
intelligent, and the wavering, determined.
7. The student is to read history actively, and not passively.
8. This resistance was the labor of his life.
9. There was always a hope, even in the darkest hour.
10. The child had a native grace that does not invariably coexist
with faultless beauty.
11. I think a mere gent (which I take to be the lowest form of
civilization) better than a howling, whistling, clucking,
stamping, jumping, tearing savage.
12. Every fowl whom Nature has taught to dip the wing in water.
13. They seem to be lines pretty much of a length.
14. Only yesterday, but what a gulf between now and then!
15. Not a brick was made but some man had to think of the making
of that brick.
16. The class of power, the working heroes, the Cortes, the
Nelson, the Napoleon, see that this is the festivity and
permanent celebration of such as they; that fashion is funded
talent.
