parsing

[LettyAshton]

I was just reading a Little House on the Prairie to dd and she had to parse a sentence as part of an exam. Here it is:

Scaling yonder peak, I saw an eagle
Wheeling near its brow

'"Scaling yonder peak" is a participial phrase, adjunct of the pronoun "I," hence adjectival'

Do any children still do this level of grammar? I certainly didn't (child of 70s). I feel a gap in my education - are there any books which still deal with parsing?

by "she" in first sentence I mean Laura, of course!

I certainly didn't!

Not entirely sure what the point is...

I did but only at university - we did joint English lit and language. I did French as well - this level of detail is more common in foreign language study.

Nope (child of the 60s here), not to that degree.

Subject/object/predicate.
Noun/verb/adjective/adverb etc.

Wouldn't know a participal phrase if I tripped over it.