[abnercoimbre]

Tell more about garden paths in this context, I'm curious!

[xoxxala]

I had no idea what a garden path sentence was, too, but wiki to the rescue:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence

[oatsandsugar]

The old man the boat

[sshine]

Time flies like an arrow,

fruit flies like a banana.

[chutes]

The horse raced past the barn fell

[alt227]

I still have never managed to understand that one properly

[cpach]

I think it shall be interpreted like this: The creature who fell was the horse (that was previously raced past the barn). I.e. it was not the barn that fell.

[alt227]

Thankyou that makes sense!

So in reality this is just an incorrect sentence. It should be written as

"The horse that raced past the barn fell"