The last two days have been spent in sentence diagramming in AP Lit because apparently none of the other people taking the class knows the least bit about grammar.

I have been awed at sentence diagramming ever since I read Little Town on the Prairie, where Laura has to diagram a sentence to pass her teacher's examination, and it completely blew my mind..

Anyways, this evening, I wished to construct a sentence and attempt to diagram it for your entertainment. Sadly, I make more complex sentences than I can diagram with all impunity, so there may be significant errors in this document.

However, I present this to you now:


I will bestow a fleeting happiness on the one who can recreate the original sentence (PROTIP: Once is capitalized, I swear).

(SPOILER)I had thought to keep the words undefined, because that's most of the challenge, but knowing my handwriting, and the quality of the scan, I thought I'd make it a little easier, so, here, left to right, going down by rows, is a word bank.

man came
a strange once when up to
me
I went walking
talking made think me
his back to
day
a ago
long
so
(that) I could remember way
not the
(that) I got there