Which of the following quotations employs the use of onomatopoeia? A. Give me my sin again!”
B. “I tell you, he that can lay hold of her / Shall have the chinks.”
C. “My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand / To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.”
D. “This, by his voice, should be a Montague. / Fetch me my rapier, boy…”

the sentence does not violate the phrase structure second rule (introduced by noam chomsky) because noun phrases consist of a determiner such as a, the or every, and a noun. in the sentence, the noun phrase the cake includes a determiner (the) and a noun (cake).

on the other hand, the first rule indicates that a sentence encloses a noun phrase, followed by a verb phrase. the example sentence can be analysed as follows:

john (n) + ate (v) + the (det) + cake (n).