Stoker's Independent Clause

The sentence is of a compound complex sentence structure consisting of two independent clauses and one dependent clause. “As Stoker published his novel,” is acting as an adverb clause at the beginning of the sentence and is to be diagrammed beneath the first independent clause “the narratives of the book animate the idea about the sexual nature of women.” The adverb clause is connected with the word “as” written along the dotted line. The second independent clause is connected to the first clause by the coordinating conjunction “for” and diagrammed beneath the adverb clause with no connection. The adverb clause is of a pattern seven sentence, the subject is “Stoker” and “published” is a transitive verb, while “novel” is the direct object. The