Directions:

Here is a sentence from William Wordsworth's "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood." In this ode, Wordsworth laments the loss of the intimate connection he felt with natural things when he was a child. When he was younger, he says, the earth seemed "appareled with celestial light." As he has grown older, however, this glory has faded. The sentence from the poem is quoted below with checkboxes over each word.  Decide where you would make your first cut if you were diagramming the syntactical structure of this sentence.  That is, decide what the Immediate Constituents (ICs) of the sentence are.

Mark the first IC as follows.  Start by positioning the mouse pointer over the checkbox that belongs to the first word in the sentence (The).   Check the box over The by clicking once with the mouse.  Then put checkmarks in  the boxes over all of the other words that belong to the same IC as The.  Leave the boxes over the other words unchecked.

If you check a box and then change your mind, you can remove the checkmark by clicking on the box again.

When you have finished checking the appropriate boxes, click on the "GO" button.
 

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