1. Lord Henry Darnley, the handsome poster boy of Scottish nobility, seemed a much better prospect.
结构剖析:这个是一个简单句。主语是:Lord Henry Darnley,谓语是seemed,表语是:a much better prospect。
在表语中much是副词,修饰形容词比较级better。句中的the handsome poster boy of Scottish nobility是做主语Lord Henry Darnley的同位语,说明其长相和身份。
2. It helped that he too had Tudor blood flowing through his veins.
结构剖析:这个句子中的 flowing through his veins是现在分词短语做后置定语。
3. Too late, Mary discovered she had married a lazy, dissolute drunk, incapable of doing even the minimal things required of a co-sovereign.
结构剖析:这是一个简单句。主语是:Mary,谓语是discover,he had married a lazy, dissolute drunk, incapable of doing even the minimal things required of a co-sovereign是宾语从句。Too late是状语,表示时间。
在宾语从句中含有一个形容词短语incapable of doing even the minimal things required of a co-sovereign后置定语,修饰名词drunk。此外,还有一个过去分词短语required of a co-sovereign做后置定语,修饰名词things。