As the different clauses are torn off they are placed on a chart marked into sections by vertically placed arrows: the principal clause to the right of the first arrow; the first subordinate clause to the right of the second; the subordinate to the subordinate to the right of the third, and so on. The above sentence results as follows:
| Principal and Coordinate | 1st subordinate | subordinate to subordinate |
| The old man liked to tell stories | ||
| and he would laugh heartily | ||
| when the women were frightened at the terrible things | ||
| that he had to tell. |
CHART C
 | Principal and coordinate (incidental) | 1st subordinate and its coordinates | subordinate to subordinate | ||
| I shall feel better | |||||
 | if you will let me sit next to the window | ||||
 | where there is more air. |
Here is another example:
—I often sit and wish that I
Could be a kite up in the sky,
And ride upon the breeze, and go
Whatever way it chanced to blow.
 | Principal and Coordinates | 1st subordinate and coordinate | subordinate to subordinate | |||
| I often sit and wish | ||||||
 | that I could be a kite up in the sky and ride upon the breeze and go whatever way | |||||
| it chanced to blow. |
Here, finally, is another:
—I was a bad boy, I admit, but no one ever paid any attention to me, unless I was to be blamed for something wrong that I had done, or was accused of doing.