The big tree <em>near our front fence</em> needs to be .... The italicised prepositional phrase has the function of an adjective. This is so because it is modifying the nucleus from the subject which is <em>tree</em>. The prepositional phrase is within the subject and is the answer to this question: WHICH tree needs to be taken down?; the answer would be: <em>The tree near our front door</em>- which implicitly means <em>this</em> tree as opposed to any other tree from the place-.
It talks about the doll and it also says the teacher showed her the expression on her face. And at the end it says she immediately lost interest in the doll
Conflict is the base of the story. Without conflict, the story has no plot, the characters don't experience anything, and there isn't really any developments at all. As for the second question, I think that's your own opinion.
