Summary of your 'study carrel' ============================== This is a summary of your Distant Reader 'study carrel'. The Distant Reader harvested & cached your content into a collection/corpus. It then applied sets of natural language processing and text mining against the collection. The results of this process was reduced to a database file -- a 'study carrel'. The study carrel can then be queried, thus bringing light specific characteristics for your collection. These characteristics can help you summarize the collection as well as enumerate things you might want to investigate more closely. Eric Lease Morgan May 27, 2019 Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 19 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 70496 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 73 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12 Mr. 10 man 8 old 8 England 7 little 7 New 5 look 5 Dr. 4 great 4 english 3 life 3 good 3 american 3 Sir 3 Mrs. 3 Mother 3 Lady 3 King 3 Great 3 God 2 like 2 letter 2 William 2 Wakefield 2 Ulysses 2 Theseus 2 Street 2 Stone 2 St. 2 Queen 2 Proserpina 2 Pluto 2 Peter 2 Miss 2 Mayor 2 Lord 2 London 2 Jason 2 J----- 2 House 2 Hotel 2 Hercules 2 Golden 2 Giant 2 Georgiana 2 Face 2 Ethan 2 Ernest 2 Englishman 2 Earl Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 3691 man 1920 time 1820 day 1745 life 1593 hand 1392 child 1334 people 1299 house 1290 eye 1284 way 1204 year 1194 woman 1190 face 1175 side 1173 heart 1148 world 1066 head 1007 nothing 970 place 949 thing 941 part 939 room 896 street 811 stone 800 door 782 foot 760 tree 758 friend 754 picture 746 wall 742 one 716 window 708 figure 708 church 697 moment 685 mother 672 town 661 person 638 mind 629 voice 607 word 583 something 577 country 547 aspect 544 thought 536 idea 530 air 528 flower 526 lady 526 earth Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 1285 Mr. 628 England 496 Septimius 442 King 355 thou 350 Zenobia 349 Hester 293 New 292 St. 284 Jason 283 Dr. 264 London 261 Mrs. 261 Hollingsworth 249 Peter 246 Pearl 233 Middleton 232 English 221 Theseus 215 Ellen 209 Priscilla 206 Cadmus 201 J----- 194 Proserpina 192 America 189 Great 186 Old 180 Sir 176 Edward 169 Prynne 168 Street 166 Rome 161 God 156 Queen 153 _ 153 Hercules 151 Mother 146 Miss 146 Hall 145 John 144 Rose 143 ------ 141 Heaven 138 Ernest 136 Lord 135 American 130 House 126 Abbey 124 heaven 124 Dimmesdale Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; "To whom are things referred?" ------------------------------------------------------------- 16418 it 12890 i 11137 he 5425 we 4820 you 4689 him 4585 they 3981 she 3604 them 3465 me 1828 us 1736 her 1560 himself 677 itself 644 themselves 578 myself 415 herself 238 ourselves 190 one 159 thee 154 yourself 88 mine 38 his 33 thyself 25 hers 23 yours 19 theirs 14 ours 11 ye 6 yourselves 6 theseus 5 whence 3 thou 2 manner,--"of 2 ''s 1 with,--who 1 whispered,-- 1 thy 1 these:-- 1 taverns,--our 1 sculptures,--you 1 ourself 1 nonsense!--come 1 indistinct 1 him,-- 1 happy,--and 1 excited,--"you 1 combe''"--that 1 ay 1 24th.--we Top 50 lemmatized verbs; "What do things do?" --------------------------------------------- 45532 be 20015 have 4139 do 3791 see 3234 say 3080 make 2712 come 2698 look 2556 go 2461 take 2314 seem 1899 find 1748 know 1548 think 1412 give 1235 stand 1087 leave 1042 tell 1027 pass 994 grow 954 feel 945 keep 822 get 821 sit 785 hear 781 appear 769 speak 749 turn 717 put 709 begin 692 call 678 set 678 let 675 bring 667 show 610 become 595 live 594 suppose 592 meet 591 answer 584 throw 577 cry 568 hold 566 lie 550 draw 537 ask 529 fall 512 bear 487 walk 484 remember Top 50 lemmatized adjectives and adverbs; "How are things described?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 7525 not 5256 so 3487 very 3343 old 3088 little 3000 more 2730 now 2456 other 2347 up 2247 as 2185 great 2028 good 2014 well 1919 own 1914 long 1777 much 1616 then 1613 only 1593 many 1563 such 1524 out 1524 here 1432 never 1390 down 1358 still 1322 most 1283 too 1220 young 1176 first 1167 even 1124 again 1119 ever 1102 there 1014 however 1013 away 983 far 916 yet 911 perhaps 879 whole 875 just 859 high 857 almost 847 same 842 beautiful 820 enough 797 once 789 poor 755 last 755 back 732 few Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 449 least 357 good 305 most 85 slight 83 high 63 great 61 deep 50 rich 50 early 42 bad 40 dear 32 near 30 strange 30 Most 27 wise 27 bright 25 fine 24 old 24 eld 23 low 23 lofty 21 true 21 strong 20 large 20 happy 19 pure 19 big 18 ugly 18 late 17 sweet 17 small 17 farth 16 topmost 16 simple 16 close 14 rude 14 dense 13 wild 13 brave 12 pleasant 12 plain 12 mere 12 lovely 12 fair 11 remote 11 noble 11 mean 11 holy 10 tall 10 loud Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1017 most 61 well 51 least 3 near 2 loudest 1 warland,--"anything 1 sky,--the 1 safest 1 odor,--the 1 oddest 1 lookest 1 lest 1 infest 1 hard 1 easiest 1 commonest 1 coldest 1 coat;--the 1 brightest Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 www.eldritchpress.org Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- 1 http://www.eldritchpress.org/nh/tgc.html Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10 years gone by 6 nothing is more 6 nothing was more 5 times gone by 4 day was over 4 eyes had not 4 face was so 4 life is so 4 people knew not 4 world was not 4 years went by 3 day was so 3 days gone by 3 door was softly 3 life was not 3 man does not 3 men do not 3 nothing is so 3 people are generally 3 people did not 3 things are not 3 women are not 3 world has ever 3 years went on 2 child came back 2 child had always 2 child was almost 2 child was fond 2 children are apt 2 children are now 2 day is over 2 day pass pleasantly 2 day passed by 2 day was dinner 2 day was very 2 days were over 2 door was closed 2 door was open 2 eye was nothing 2 eyes are full 2 eyes grew clear 2 eyes look heavy 2 eyes were dim 2 eyes were very 2 face is very 2 face turned pale 2 face was as 2 face was calm 2 face was ghastly 2 face was pale Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 friends had not long 2 people did not very 1 child had no other 1 child is no captive 1 children are not readily 1 children have no mercy 1 day is not so 1 day was no more 1 day was not yet 1 days is not very 1 eyes had not already 1 face is not striking 1 friends are not far 1 hand had not at 1 hands were not now 1 heart did not throb 1 heart knew no better 1 heart was not destitute 1 house is not large 1 house was not at 1 houses are not fine 1 houses have not gables 1 life are not apt 1 life is not less 1 life is not long 1 life were no easy 1 man does not vainly 1 man had no idea 1 man has no right 1 man is no longer 1 man is not capable 1 men do not even 1 men make no such 1 men were not so 1 part were not delusory 1 people do not so 1 pictures are not nearly 1 room had not more 1 room is not more 1 rooms are not so 1 rooms have no size 1 side had no very 1 things are not so 1 trees are no more 1 trees were not yet 1 way was not particularly 1 woman had no better 1 woman is no sister 1 woman is not capable 1 women are not angels Sizes of items; "Measures in words, how big is each item?" ---------------------------------------------------------- 236566 7878 171169 7881 150335 13707 119202 35377 117515 8090 85519 33 77033 2081 74053 512 66201 976 64103 7372 41329 7085 39985 39716 34856 513 31139 8429 16964 7119 6035 9250 2623 9237 2496 9203 2294 9208 Readability of items; "How difficult is each item to read?" ----------------------------------------------------------- 83.0 35377 82.0 9203 81.0 976 78.0 9237 77.0 513 77.0 9208 76.0 2081 75.0 7085 75.0 13707 75.0 39716 74.0 512 73.0 33 73.0 7372 72.0 7878 70.0 7881 68.0 8429 67.0 7119 61.0 9250 59.0 8090 Item summaries; "In a narrative form, how can each item be abstracted?" ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 13707 old man and woman, like chief mourners at a funeral, attired from head Dorothy set forth, each holding a hand of little Ilbrahim, like two what to dread; the old man, on the other hand, stood up erect, and his "Catharine, blessed woman," exclaimed the old man, "art thou come to The old man generally shakes hands and has a little chat "Strayed from her home, a LITTLE GIRL of five years old, in a blue ends of the earth?" cried the old woman, peering into the lady''s face. House that it seemed as if all the old governors and great men were upon the great street of the town, while the sun looked in at his old "Why," said the old man, deepening the grin of a death''s-head on which sick old man like me?" And then his poor soul crept away and left the 2081 "He knocks as if he had a right to come in," said Zenobia, laughing. in his glance that Hollingsworth first met Zenobia''s eyes, and began Priscilla,--a pale, large-eyed little woman (for she had gone far "Come hither, Priscilla," said Zenobia. "Mr. Hollingsworth!" said the old man in his hesitating way. Zenobia had the gift of telling a fanciful little story, off-hand, in a With Hollingsworth, Zenobia, Priscilla, and myself, it grew to be a birch-tree, I plainly saw Zenobia take the hand of Hollingsworth in "Come, Priscilla," said I, looking her intently in the face, which was Of all possible observers, methought a woman like Zenobia and a man "Come, Priscilla," said Zenobia; "it is time. sat Hollingsworth, with Priscilla at his feet and Zenobia standing "Hollingsworth,--Zenobia,--I have just returned to Blithedale," said I, "Priscilla," said Hollingsworth, "come." Zenobia smiled; possibly I 33 "Dost thou know me so little, Hester Prynne? sport for her, did little Pearl look into her eyes, and smile. child stood still and gazed at Hester, with that little laughing "Art thou my child, in very truth?" asked Hester. "No, my little Pearl!" said her mother; "thou must gather thine "My poor woman," said the not unkind old minister, "the child "Come up hither, Hester, thou and little Pearl," said the the minister, with his hand over his heart; and Hester Prynne, "Minister," said little Pearl, "I can tell thee who he is!" All this while Hester had been looking steadily at the old man, "My little Pearl," said Hester, after a moment''s silence, "the "Dost thou know, child, wherefore thy mother wears this letter?" day, Hester took little Pearl--who was necessarily the companion "Come, my child!" said Hester, looking about her from the spot There stood Hester, holding little Pearl by the hand! 35377 The young man came to the palace, and found the king sitting upon his "My dear, good, admirable old ladies," said Perseus, addressing the Gray the old, old times, when King Midas was alive, a great many things came "You are wiser than you were, King Midas!" said the stranger, looking "Cousin Eustace," said Sweet Fern, a good little boy, who was always "Ah," said the sweet little voice again, "you had much better let me "Hear him, Periwinkle, trying to talk like a grown man!" said Primrose. "You are a fine little man!" said Bellerophon, drawing the child closer lived, a very long time ago, a little boy named Theseus. There was the poor old king, too, leaning on his son''s arm, and looking His little friends, like all other small people, had a great opinion of "Long live King Cadmus," they cried, "in his beautiful palace." 39716 twilight Aylmer opened his eyes upon his wife''s face and recognized the "I have looked," said he, "into many a human heart that was seven times He pointed to an old man, shabbily dressed, with long white hair, thin Ethan Brand''s eye quailed beneath the old man''s. always in his mind, whenever he looked upon the Great Stone Face. a little old man, with a skin as yellow as if his own Midas-hand had "The very image of the Great Stone Face!" shouted the people. enough, the old prophecy is true; and here we have the great man come, the Great Stone Face for years before, now spent their time in gazing at towards the Great Stone Face, which, like a faithful and long-remembered "Fear not, Ernest," said his heart, even as if the Great Face were Great Stone Face, imagining that they had seen its likeness in a human 512 "Heaven knows your words are too true," said Aylmer, sadly. the eye of that good old man, our minister, at Salem village? "That old woman taught me my catechism," said the young man; and there A young man, named Giovanni Guasconti, came, very long ago, from the Giovanni beheld her press her hand to her bosom as if her heart were "Give it me!" said Beatrice, extending her hand to receive the little perfection, keeps his heart and hand till both get so old and withered "Now, my love, are not you a most unreasonable little man?" said Mrs. Bullfrog, patting me on the cheek. The pipe was in the old dame''s mouth when she said these words. "Yes, kind mother," said the figure, "with all my heart!" "With all thy heart!" cried the old witch, setting her hands to her thou hast given him that word in his ear," said the old witch. 513 "Yes, Violet,--yes, my little Peony," said their kind mother, "you may snow, Violet, after laughing heartily at little Peony''s figure, was "You look exactly like a snow-image, Peony," said she, "if your cheeks "Yes," answered Violet; "mamma shall see the new little girl. a little girl could look so much like a flying snow-drift, or how a snow-drift could look so very like a little girl. "Come, you odd little thing!" cried the honest man, seizing her by the enough, the old prophecy is true; and here we have the great man come, turned towards the Great Stone Face, which, like a faithful and long "Fear not, Ernest," said his heart, even as if the Great Face were "No!" said Ernest bluntly, "I see little or no likeness." valley, paused to look at the Great Stone Face, imagining that they had As Ernest listened to the poet, he imagined that the Great Stone Face 7085 From the time that Ellen entered Dr. Melmoth''s habitation, the sunny days Edward Walcott and Ellen rose higher as they rode on; and their way was "Your ride is unusually long to-day, Fanshawe," observed Edward Walcott. Edward Walcott, eluding Fanshawe''s observation with little difficulty, Ellen Langton, on her return from her walk, found Dr. Melmoth''s little He said no more; and, as Ellen did not reply, they reached the house, and "Nay, that is a hard word to bestow on your old comrade," said Hugh acquaintance with Ellen Langton, he had rarely entered Hugh Crombie''s "But methinks their anxiety was not of long continuance," observed Dr. Melmoth, looking at the wine, and remembering the song that his entrance Scarcely a word had passed between Dr. Melmoth and Ellen Langton, on "Stay, young man," said the stranger, placing himself full in Edward''s way 7119 forlorn old age, the Doctor expected soon to stretch out his weary but be anxious about the child, knowing that little Pansie would be far my feeble old heart, Pansie, though it might do little to mend a broken Dolliver, who often awoke from an old man''s fitful sleep with a sense which old Grandsir Dolliver had so strangely crept away. "Ay," said the old man, as the well-remembered figure of his ancient joke upon the old man, had never come back; and now, for seven years, this," said Dr. Dolliver, "he might fancy it his nostrum of long life, he had eschewed strong spirits: "But after seventy," quoth old Dr. Dolliver, "a man is all the better in head and stomach for a little ''The old man''s cordial?'' That promises too little. "Come, Doctor, I know a thing or two," said the Colonel, with a bitter 7372 "No, Septimius, content with heaven at last," said Rose, who had come out "Nephew Septimius," said the old woman, "you began this meal to-day without "That sounds good, Septimius," said the old lady. "I know not whether they are coming or no, Rose," said Septimius, stopping that is a pity," said the young man; and yet Septimius thought that Septimius thought of what the young man, in his last moments, had said of "No young man ever had such a girl, I am sure," said Septimius; "so sweet, "Nothing," said Rose Garfield, "except what comes to a good many young men "I mean those many good and sweet young girls," said Septimius, "who would "It is very strange," said Septimius, "but I fear I shall be a good deal "My Aunt Keziah should meet you there, doctor," said Septimius. "Septimius," said Sibyl, who looked strangely beautiful, as if the drink, 7878 As we left the house, we looked into the dark and squalid dining-room, boat arrived from town, I went into the ferry-house, a small stone passed many old thatched cottages, built of stone, and with what looked the finest old English village I have seen, with many antique houses, and hotels, one of which has the look of a good old village inn; and the itself a compact little town, with a market-house, built of the old brick, common to buildings in the city, looks like a time-long stand, the large interior hall saw some old armor hanging on the wall at one end,-went into St. Paul''s, and walked all round the great cathedral, looking, Quiet old English towns, that till within a little time ago great size, but old, and looking as if its tower were built, not for The street looks as old as any that I have seen, except, 7881 In the first place, he took us through narrow streets to an old church, beautiful pictures by great masters, painted for the places which they open, and we went into a large room on the ground-floor, and, looking up On our way, looking down a cross street, we saw a heavy arch, On our way home, sitting in one of the narrow streets, we saw an old locanda was built of stone, and had what looked like an old Roman altar painted glass I saw in England, and a great wheel window looks like a altar, elevated on four pillars of beautiful marble, is what looks like a old banker, in Roman costume, seated, and looking like a man fit to hold Palace, which looks a little less like a state-prison here, than as it way looked into the old church, which was so dim in the decline of day 8090 seem little likely to be, twenty years hence), and a similar one of Great stands St. John''s School-House, a picturesque old edifice of stone, with as from a life apart, a few old men are generally to be seen, wrapped in the garden, into which its old windows look, has probably put off a great Not far from the market-place of Warwick stands the great church of St. Mary''s: a vast edifice, indeed, and almost worthy to be a cathedral. not crept into these antiquated English towns, and so people grow old though, like the hotels of most old English towns, it had a musty the great old Minster has fair room to sit, looking down on the ancient site of some stately and queer old houses, and of many mean little a two-story, red-stone, thatched house, looking old, but by no means refined and cultivated American looks at the Old Country, the things that 8429 Middleton, who is the American descendant of an old English family, as Middleton had felt impelled to disclose to the old man the object of his "I suppose," said he to the old man, "the settlers in my country may have "So," said the old man, smiling gravely, "you have thought fit, at last, intercourse, between Middleton and this old man, which was followed up in Middleton entered, the old gentleman looked at him with a stern, fixed Middleton, were really a branch of the English family of Eldredge, or "The nature of the secret," said Middleton, smiling, "was not likely to "We are friends, then?" said Mr. Eldredge, looking keenly at Middleton, "As I said in our meeting in your park, Mr. Eldredge," replied Middleton, Middleton shall tell him what he knows of his past character and life, Middleton has been directed to this old man by a friend in 9203 Streets, Salem.]--The Town Pump talking through its nose.) make the water bubble and smoke, in the trough under my nose. A hot day, gentlemen! the water absolutely hisses down your red-hot gullet, and is time these ten years, you know the flavor of cold water. draught from the Town Pump. of the fire-water burst upon the red men, and swept their whole race away For many years it was the watering-place, and, as But, in the course of time, a Town Pump was sunk into the source of the water is as pure and cold as that which slaked the thirst of the red virtues of cold water, too little valued since your father''s days, be mine, must flow the stream that shall cleanse our earth of the vast The TOWN Pump and the Cow! Hereafter, they shall have the business to themselves. liquor, to drink--"SUCCESS TO THE TOWN PUMP!" 9208 and visible frame of man set its seal to the evil designs of the soul, in with Mr. Smith, when, through the brilliant medium of his glass of old How kind of Fancy, Memory, and Conscience to visit the old gentleman, picture-box upon the table, with the magnifying-glass convenient to his say, as old Mr. Smith peeped through the magnifying-glass, which made the gentleman''s ear; it is a record merely of sinful thought, which never was face, and strikes a dagger to the heart of Mr. Smith. scene, there was a table set out, with several bottles, and glasses half Mr. Smith and Edward Spencer were heating their young blood with wine, a dagger to the heart of Mr. Smith, and quelled his remonstrance with her venerated old man, in the rich gloom of the crimson-curtained room, with evil deeds, and the villain of actual life, in projecting crimes that 9237 hours, in the streets,--this very bell sent forth its first-born accents bells of lofty cathedrals, called forth a peal from Our Lady''s Chapel of Loudly rang the bell of the wilderness while the streets of echoes died away hundreds of miles southeastward of Our Lady''s Chapel. while the bell tolled dismally, and the priests were chanting a doleful Give me, I pray you, the bell of this popish chapel, for the sake of the anew, it will talk like a good English and Protestant bell." So Deacon Lawson and half a score of his townsmen took down the bell, But there lay the bell, for many silent years; and the wonder is, that he after the bell had been hoisted into the belfry, was to toll the funeral another through the street, the bell has tolled a requiem for all alike. "Open thy bosom, Mother Earth!" Thus spake the bell. O funeral bell! 9250 We have before us a volume of autograph letters, chiefly of soldiers and There are several letters from John Adams, written in a small, hasty, nature was adapted to stand in relation to his country, as man stands Another letter from the same famous hand is addressed to General Palmer, Next, we come to the fragment of a letter by Samuel Adams; an autograph From General Warren we have a letter dated January 14, 1775, only a few of these letters, it was a far more formal age than the present. young men, members of the old colonial families,--gentlemen, as John Lincoln was the type of a New England soldier; a man of fair abilities, General Schuyler writes a letter, under date of February 22, 1780, Their letters, therefore, come to us like material things out of the would History be put to the blush by a volume of autograph letters, like 976 there lived, a very long time ago, a little boy named Theseus. very fond of hearing about King Aegeus, and often asked his good mother over-brimming heart into the king''s hand, poor Theseus knew not what There was the poor old king, too, leaning on his son''s arm, and looking His little friends, like all other small people, had a great opinion of "My good little people," said he, making a low obeisance to the grand "Have you seen a beautiful maiden, dressed like a king''s daughter, and his mouth looked like a great red cavern, at the farther end of which "Long live King Cadmus," they cried, "in his beautiful palace." "My little Proserpina," said the king, sitting down, and affectionately When their hearts had grown a little more quiet, Mother Ceres looked "My good young man," said King Pelias, taking the softest tone