 Welcome back. Here is another sentence in our series syntactic analysis that I want to analyze using the principles of the comprehensive grammar of the English language so we have another example of a traditional syntactic analysis and In this video, I'm going to analyze the sentence. Oh, what a beautiful house and what a nicely laid coffee table And as usual, I will first of all look at the word classes then at the phrasal categories I will perform a clausal analysis and will eventually define the sentence type. So Let's start Let us first of all assign the word classes to all the words in our sentence We have two nouns house and coffee table Well coffee table, of course is a compound now with table as a head But the whole thing in a on a syntactic level is one noun Both are introduced by the determiner A and are preceded by an adjective in each case beautiful and laid where Laid is a de-verbal adjective an adjective that has been derived from a verb now laid itself is modified by an adverb nicely laid and And Finally, we have two occurrences of the complement ties are what? What a beautiful house what a nicely laid Coffee table and finally we have an interjection o at the beginning and the conjunction and in the middle Let us now group these two these simple categories into constituents and let's perform a phrasal analysis as Usual you see all those open-class categories that will eventually occur as heads of their phrases are marked in special colors Let us work out the phrasal categories in a hierarchical fashion first. We have two adjectival phrases at the lowest level in The first case we have a simple adjectival phrase beautiful with no pre modifier nor post modifier The adjectival phrase nicely laid Consists of a pre modifier nicely, which is an adverb and the head laid Both adjectival phrases are nested within a noun phrase Where together with the determiner a they constitute the pre modification part That's it. That's the phrasal analysis Let's now analyze the clausal structure of our sentence The sentence has two elliptical main clauses whose meaning can be recovered by adding elements such as What a beautiful house this is or what a nicely laid coffee table you have the clauses themselves are What a beautiful house and what a nicely laid coffee table? So as a result We have a compound sentence With two elliptical main clauses where the clauses are linked by the conjunction and and in each Clause we have a complex noun phrase The sentence type itself is exclamatory It is a sentence or a clause in this case introduced by an interrogative pronoun With a declarative sentence word order and the problem here is that both clauses are elliptical Well, that's it. Now here the clausal analysis is a little bit more complicated But once you've understood the principles, it's really simple If you want to download this board content, I've just created as usual Create your account on the virtual linguistics campus unless you've already got an account then log in Visit the e-lecture library, which is free for all those who have an account and In the lever e-lecture library you have access to all videos and their board content in a freely accessible PDF format Thank you very much and see you again