Analyzing grammar is a process of breaking down a sentence into its component parts in order to understand the meaning and structure of the sentence. Parsing is the process of analyzing a sentence by breaking it down into its component parts, such as nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and other parts of speech. PARSED is the past tense of parsing, and parses is the present tense of parsing. An ADVERB is a word that modifies or describes a verb, an adjective, another ADVERB, a phrase, or a clause.