What is the function of the underlined gerund in the following sentence?

Sledding was unfamiliar to him (sledding is underlined)

a- subject
b-verb
c-adverb
d-object of preposition

Gulliver's attempt to imitate the houyhnhnms gulliver to accept himself as he is causes gulliver to hate himself and other humans improves gulliver's character causes gulliver to be patient with people's problems next

How is the word laud and welcome different

What inference can be made based on the daughters actions in this passage