英语文法:复合句(ComplexSentence)分析
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英语文法: 复合句(Complex Sentence)
分析
Source: Zhihu
(prepared by: alexcwlin; edited by: Adam Lam)
Question:
你好,请问可以帮我分析一下这个句子吗。
As he spoke, so lightly, tapping the end of his cigarette against
the ashtray, she felt the strange beast that had slumbered so long
within her bosom stir, stretch itself, yawn, prick up its ears, and
suddenly bound to its feet, and fix its longing, hungry stare upon
those far away places.
alexcwlin comments:
This is an excerpt from the book “The Collected Stories of
Katherine Mansfield” by Katherine Mansfield.
It is a complex sentence (复合句) which is made up of 1 Main Clause
(主句) and 2 Dependent Clauses (从属句).
Dependent Clause #1: “As he spoke, so lightly, tapping the
end of his cigarette against the ashtray,” Main Clause: “she
felt the strange beast” Dependent Clause #2: “that had
slumbered so long within her bosom stir, stretch itself, yawn,
prick up its ears, and suddenly bound to its feet, and fix its
longing, hungry stare upon those far away places.”
A.
“she felt the strange beast”
Subject: “she” (Pronoun)
Verb: “felt” (Transitive Verb, Simple Past Tense)
Object: “the strange beast” (Noun Phase, Object of
“felt”)
B.
“As he spoke, so lightly, tapping
the end of his cigarette against the ashtray,”
Connector: “as” (Subordinating Conjunction linking the
Dependent Clause to the Main Clause)
Subject: “he” (Pronoun)
Verb: “spoke” (Intransitive Verb, Simple Past Tense)
Modifiers:
#1: “so lightly” (Adverbial Phrase, modifying Verb “spoke”)
#2: “tapping the end of his cigarette against the ashtray”
(Adjectival Phrase, modifying Subject “he”)
Dependent Clause #2
“that had slumbered so long
within her bosom stir, stretch itself, yawn, prick up its ears, and
suddenly bound to its feet, and fix its longing, hungry stare upon
those far away places.”
Connector: “that” (Relative Pronoun, linking the Dependent
Clause to the Main Clause, also Subject)
Subject: “that” (Relative Pronoun, which serves the dual
roles of a Connector and also the Subject in representing “the
strange beast”)
Verb: “slumbered” (Intransitive Verb, Simple Past
Tense)
Modifiers:
#1: “so long within her bosom” (Adverbial Phrase, modifying
“slumbered”)
#2: “stir” (Bare Infinitive, modifying Subject “that”, Noted
1)
#3: “stretch itself” (Bare Infinitive
#4: “yawn” (Bare Infinitive, modifying Subject “that”, Noted
1)
#5: “prick up its ears” (Bare
Infinitive
#6: “and suddenly bound to its feet” (Bare
Infinitive
#7: “and fix its longing, hungry stare upon those far away
places” (Bare Infinitive
Note 1: A Bare Infinitive can follow the Verb “had” as a Verb of
“causation”;
See:
https://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/grammar-lesson-infinitive.php#:~:text=The
bare infinitive is also,let/had him do it.&text=The verb help
is followed by the bare infinitive
However, it needs an Object following “had”, and so my guess is the
Pronoun “itself” is understood.

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