Review the sentence:
Gasping after the five-mile run in the summer sun, Donovan's thirst
was quenched with a bottle of cool water.
Gasping after the five-mile run in the summer sun, a participle phrase, comes right before thirst, an illogical target. (Donovan's, a possessive noun, functions as an adjective describing thirst.) The person, not the thirst, has lungs that can gasp!
Before you continue, review the rules for misplaced and dangling modifiers.