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Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 6 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 39933 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 72 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 balloon 4 air 3 Mr. 2 time 2 ascent 2 Paris 2 Monsieur 2 Godard 2 Coxwell 1 wind 1 temperature 1 metre 1 man 1 kite 1 illustration 1 height 1 good 1 gas 1 french 1 foot 1 cloud 1 car 1 Wise 1 Verne 1 Spencer 1 Smyth 1 Sir 1 Rogers 1 Roe 1 Phaeton 1 Patsy 1 Ned 1 Nadar 1 Montgolfier 1 Monkey 1 Mercy 1 Lunardi 1 London 1 July 1 Jimmy 1 Jack 1 Holman 1 Hill 1 Green 1 Glaisher 1 Gardens 1 Franklin 1 Fay 1 England 1 Edmund Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 1358 balloon 648 air 572 foot 481 time 430 height 398 cloud 358 day 351 wind 342 man 328 kite 321 ascent 307 mile 286 temperature 282 ground 265 boy 262 car 256 way 250 earth 249 hour 247 gas 226 year 208 aeronaut 195 hand 181 machine 181 fire 180 observation 180 line 175 night 169 water 169 side 166 thing 164 sea 163 place 157 course 153 voyage 153 minute 151 point 151 instrument 149 fact 149 altitude 143 one 139 direction 138 part 138 end 134 rope 134 atmosphere 128 house 127 current 124 money 123 descent Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 547 Ned 522 _ 435 Phaeton 388 Mr. 205 Jack 181 Jimmy 158 M. 125 Monkey 107 Paris 104 Coxwell 86 I. 86 Hill 84 Holman 84 Blue 82 Patsy 81 Green 79 Glaisher 74 de 72 Aunt 71 Mercy 69 CHAPTER 67 England 63 Mr 62 Fay 59 Nadar 56 Monsieur 55 Roe 52 London 50 Dr. 50 Box 49 Rogers 48 Spencer 45 France 42 Godard 42 Charles 40 Burton 37 Sir 35 Montgolfier 34 September 34 J. 34 Father 34 Edmund 34 Dublin 33 Professor 33 Balloon 31 Rafferty 30 Wise 30 July 30 Glidden 30 Blanchard Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; "To whom are things referred?" ------------------------------------------------------------- 3340 it 2050 he 1801 i 1219 we 868 you 759 they 540 him 464 them 320 us 296 me 181 himself 156 she 101 itself 73 themselves 70 her 53 myself 24 one 23 ourselves 14 ''s 12 yourself 8 yours 8 mine 8 herself 4 ours 2 yourselves 2 his 2 ''em 1 theirs 1 thee 1 point,--you 1 know,--you Top 50 lemmatized verbs; "What do things do?" --------------------------------------------- 9675 be 2765 have 1547 say 871 do 869 make 518 go 511 see 507 take 378 find 366 come 344 get 341 know 325 give 278 think 233 rise 231 carry 224 seem 218 fall 216 tell 214 become 210 ascend 198 reach 191 look 188 pass 177 descend 176 call 159 throw 156 show 156 put 156 appear 155 leave 155 follow 154 use 154 suppose 146 hear 146 bring 144 run 144 let 143 begin 133 remain 128 fly 126 hold 124 break 121 keep 118 stand 117 fill 109 try 103 record 99 turn 97 lose Top 50 lemmatized adjectives and adverbs; "How are things described?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1491 not 547 up 497 more 477 then 454 out 450 so 390 great 385 first 362 only 357 now 334 other 329 very 308 little 289 as 277 high 266 well 257 good 253 down 244 long 238 much 233 same 225 again 211 about 204 however 189 many 186 most 184 large 182 away 179 off 178 few 173 here 172 also 166 small 160 low 158 just 157 still 156 own 152 last 152 far 147 all 144 never 140 such 140 soon 140 next 137 too 133 upper 128 thus 127 right 127 once 126 less Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 68 good 58 least 41 most 41 high 39 great 19 early 12 low 10 slight 10 large 8 warm 7 near 7 bad 6 old 6 long 5 Most 4 small 4 lofty 3 young 3 strong 3 simple 3 light 3 late 3 l 3 cold 3 bold 2 soft 2 nice 2 manif 2 handsome 2 fine 2 eld 2 easy 2 clear 1 wise 1 wild 1 thin 1 thick 1 tall 1 southw 1 short 1 severe 1 s'' 1 remote 1 ready 1 pure 1 proud 1 prompt 1 new 1 hot 1 green Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 145 most 10 well 10 least 1 shortest 1 greatest Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 ascent took place 3 _ are _ 3 balloon is now 3 balloon was now 3 balloon went up 2 _ is _ 2 balloon carrying animals 2 balloon rose rapidly 2 balloon was midway 2 balloon was successfully 2 boys were there 2 clouds were far 2 earth is always 2 kites are preferable 2 man appeared again 2 ned came over 2 ned looked up 2 phaeton came out 2 temperature is about 2 wind was high 1 _ did _ 1 _ do _ 1 _ had not 1 _ was _ 1 _ was truly 1 aeronaut ascended again 1 aeronaut is worthy 1 aeronaut took flight 1 aeronaut was wholly 1 aeronaut were very 1 aeronauts are more 1 aeronauts going aloft 1 aeronauts had not 1 aeronauts threw out 1 aeronauts was mr 1 aeronauts were half 1 aeronauts were not 1 air are higher 1 air are parallel 1 air became dry 1 air became tolerably 1 air becomes denser 1 air becomes rarefied 1 air becomes warmer 1 air does not 1 air had weight 1 air has less 1 air have not 1 air having different 1 air is always Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 aeronaut had no choice 1 aeronauts were not inhabitants 1 air have not even 1 ascents were not only 1 balloon are not comparable 1 balloon had no true 1 balloon is not greater 1 balloon was not sufficiently 1 car has no wheels 1 day was not favourable 1 earth was no longer 1 gas were not available 1 kites were not comrades 1 phaeton had not yet 1 phaeton was not able 1 time has not yet A rudimentary bibliography -------------------------- id = 861 author = Bacon, John M. (John Mackenzie) title = The Dominion of the Air: The Story of Aerial Navigation date = keywords = Andree; CHAPTER; Captain; Charles; Coxwell; Dr.; England; Gardens; Glaisher; Godard; Green; July; London; Lunardi; Mr.; Paris; Spencer; Wise; air; ascent; balloon; foot; french; time; wind summary = later at Lyons, when a mammoth balloon, 130 feet in height and lifting aeronaut took flight from Paris in a small hydrogen balloon only would make an ascent with a hot air balloon in some gardens near Chelsea Ascending in a hydrogen balloon to the height of about 2,000 feet, the exploration of the air by balloon ascents organised with fitting The chief danger attending a balloon journey in a high wind, supposing balloon is to be 100 feet in diameter, giving it a net ascending power cause a large balloon to ascend through ninety feet, it may be pointed took the balloon a height of 3,000 feet in three minutes'' space, and a balloon of only some 26,000 cubic feet capacity and reached earth at Ascending at 11.30 a.m. under a warm sun, the balloon had by 1 p.m. reached an altitude of 16,000 feet, when the external air was at id = 21708 author = Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael) title = Up in the Clouds: Balloon Voyages date = keywords = Coxwell; Godard; Monsieur; Montgolfier; Nadar; Paris; air; ascent; balloon; car; man; time summary = It is well known that balloons, filled with appropriate gas, will rise. prevent a man making two balloons, flattish, and in the form of wings, to that period in the history of balloon voyaging, or aeronautics, when The great success of the Montgolfier balloons naturally threw the balloon constructed by Monsieur Robert, which was filled with hydrogen. As the balloon has a car hung beneath it, so in like manner balloon is full, and that the gas is coming out from the safety-valve. ACCOUNT OF NADAR''S BALLOON, "LE GEANT." FIRST ASCENT. Such was the giant balloon in which Monsieur Nadar and his friends made "Interesting details of the ascent of the Nadar balloon, said to have SECOND ASCENT OF NADAR''S "GIANT" BALLOON. air by means of balloons, so they were the first to set the example of has several times exploded his balloons while in the air, to show that id = 43809 author = Franklin, Benjamin title = Benjamin Franklin and the First Balloons date = keywords = Balloon; Franklin; Sir; Smyth; air summary = The documents which I publish are copies of Franklin''s letters, made on thin paper in a copying press (probably the rotary machine invented of the letters appear in Sparks'' edition of Franklin''s Works, and that he printed one letter from my copy, and he noted how the other paragraphs, capital letters or the old spelling,[2] Smyth follows the after the Fireworks we had a Balloon of about 5 feet Diameter filled This Method of filling the Balloon with hot Air is cheap and This Balloon of only 26 feet diameter being filled with Air ten times Charles & Robert''s Experiment, which was to have been made at this Day, the other press-copies and the letters as printed by Bigelow and Smyth "A hot air balloon carrying animals", as there is one in every "A hot air balloon carrying animals", as there is one in every id = 48313 author = Johnson, Rossiter title = Phaeton Rogers: A Novel of Boy Life date = keywords = Aunt; Box; Burton; Dublin; Edmund; Fay; Holman; Jack; Jimmy; Mercy; Monkey; Mr.; Ned; Patsy; Phaeton; Roe; Rogers; good summary = "He looks to me like a very kicky horse," said Ned; "and I wouldn''t "But none of us have been used to riding that way," said Ned. Without replying, his uncle folded a blanket, laid it on the horse''s "You walk on the nigh side," said Phaeton to me, "and let Ned take the "I haven''t got any money with me," said Phaeton; "but I know a short "I think I like that way best," said Ned. "I don''t know anybody better than Jack-in-the-Box," said Ned. "All right," said Ned, for in these things he was a wise boy, and a "I''m afraid the invention doesn''t look practical to you," said Ned. Before Jack could answer, Isaac Holman appeared at the door of the box, "Good gracious, Ned!" said Phaeton, "why did you print this thing "You''re the very boy--I mean man--I wanted to see," said Ned, running id = 36252 author = Rotch, Abbott Lawrence title = Sounding the Ocean of Air Being Six Lectures Delivered Before the Lowell Institute of Boston, in December 1898 date = keywords = Blue; Hill; Mr.; air; balloon; cloud; height; illustration; kite; temperature summary = Temperatures observed in Four High Balloon Ascents 91 Changes with Height recorded by Kites at Blue Hill 155 with the height attained by the Blue Hill kites, to be described found from the kite-observations at Blue Hill, that up to the height clouds indicate the direction and velocity of the air at different may be no clouds at all, in which case balloons or kites will aid us clouds at different heights, have been made at Blue Hill several times the height of a mile the mean decrease of temperature in the day-time with height observed during the four highest balloon ascents in Europe are utilized in the measurements of cloud-heights at Blue Hill. atmospheric pressure, air temperature, and relative humidity, was air up to heights of at least 12,000 feet whenever there is wind, but of temperature with height, so that the air at altitudes of from 300 id = 16085 author = Verne, Jules title = A Voyage in a Balloon (1852) date = keywords = Blanchard; Monsieur; Verne; balloon; gas; metre summary = the balloon, rising and falling, ballast); use of dialogue to convey My Ascension at Frankfort--The Balloon, the Gas, the Apparatus, the 1500 Metres--The Storm--Great Personages in Balloons--The Valve--The The balloon slowly ascended; but I experienced a shock which threw me to The balloon, after having risen, remained stationary; the unknown orifice of the balloon; when the voyagers wished to ascend, they threw, machine, and the air, growing warmer, gave to the balloon a new when the balloon is too full, or when one wishes to descend; the car, M. Petin placed four balloons, filled with hydrogen, in northeast wind, their balloon was filled with gas on the Dover side; balloon continued to descend. balloon, relieved, will re-ascend!''--'' No, no, it is frightful.'' The To his balloon, inflated with gas, Harris ascended in a balloon of the gas; the balloon continued to ascend! The balloon ascended In a twinkling the balloon ascended to an immeasurable height!