Write an essay on the topic: the experience and mistakes

Based on structural elements what type of expository text does this excerpt from a 1917 congressional address by president woodrow wilson exemplify

Some one drawing water and my theater placed my hand under the spout. as the cool stream gushed over one hand she spelled into the other the word water , first slowly , then rapidly . i stood still ,my whole attention fixed upon the motions of her fingers . suddenly i felt misty consciousness as of soothing forgotten --a thrill of returning thought and somehow the mystery of language was revealed to me this passage from the stoyof my life is an wxample of which element of plotclimax action

Which form does a verb take when the subject receives the action?