"Intro to Pyparsing" Article at ONLamp

[Peter Hansen]

Terry Reedy wrote:
> "Peter Hansen" <peter at engcorp.com> wrote:
>>Christopher Subich wrote:
>>>"The horse raced past the barn fell."
>>>
>>>It's just one of many "garden path sentences," where something that
>>>occurs late in the sentence needs to trigger a reparse of the entire
>>>sentence.
>>
>>I can't parse that at all.
> 
> Upon seeing 'fell' as the main verb, you have to reparse 'raced past the 
> barn' as not the predicate but as a past participle adjectival phrase, like 
> 'bought last year' or 'expected to win'.
> 
> The phrase parsed as a predicate reparses as a modifier, as in this 
> sentence ;-)

Ah, as in "the horse that was raced past the barn fell".  Got it. :-)

-Peter