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?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 11 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 79182 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 8 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9 Scotland 7 Sir 7 England 6 man 6 Scott 6 Mr. 5 illustration 5 Walter 5 St. 5 Lord 5 John 5 James 5 Edinburgh 5 Castle 4 scottish 4 William 4 Tweed 4 Mary 3 like 3 great 3 good 3 Queen 3 Mull 3 Melrose 3 Macleod 3 London 3 Loch 3 King 3 Highland 3 Glasgow 3 English 3 Charles 3 Burns 3 Border 3 Abbey 2 old 2 look 2 little 2 day 2 Yarrow 2 Tower 2 Street 2 Stewart 2 Sky 2 Scotch 2 Prince 2 Macdonald 2 Laird 2 Lady 2 Johnson Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 2076 man 1651 day 1421 time 1136 place 1025 year 879 house 874 way 737 life 690 hill 690 country 643 people 628 mile 623 side 583 night 580 part 579 water 579 castle 539 land 515 foot 513 town 512 road 509 stone 484 thing 479 tree 476 friend 466 name 434 hand 430 horse 420 river 420 one 420 nothing 391 sea 386 wall 377 century 371 morning 371 family 370 story 369 book 368 mind 368 island 365 world 359 woman 354 heart 354 eye 353 room 352 work 352 illustration 346 rock 341 scene 332 head Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 1847 _ 1069 Scott 940 Sir 886 Dr 829 Johnson 810 Scotland 506 James 471 Castle 448 Edinburgh 440 Lord 425 Mr 412 St. 412 John 369 Walter 357 Mary 350 King 319 England 312 Mr. 302 Tweed 291 William 269 English 266 Border 250 Loch 249 Queen 243 God 229 JOHNSON 227 Earl 213 Dr. 205 Lady 202 Billy 197 Highland 196 London 191 Yarrow 188 Glasgow 184 Col 180 Abbotsford 177 ye 177 Duke 175 Highlands 171 Charles 170 Robert 167 Abbey 147 Wanderer 145 Footnote 143 Bruce 141 George 139 Melrose 137 Prince 137 Douglas 136 Sky Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; "To whom are things referred?" ------------------------------------------------------------- 8110 it 7388 he 7169 i 4519 we 3027 they 2195 him 1848 you 1637 them 1475 me 1315 us 1136 she 575 himself 405 her 316 one 209 themselves 194 itself 184 myself 111 ourselves 72 thee 69 herself 32 yourself 24 mine 15 ours 15 ''s 14 yours 14 ye 14 his 12 ''em 11 theirs 6 oneself 6 hers 4 on''t 3 thy 3 em 2 pu''d 1 yourse''f 1 yer 1 wigwam 1 were-- 1 water-- 1 us,--john 1 thyself 1 thus:-- 1 theymself 1 tears 1 shou''d 1 o 1 na 1 inn,--no 1 genl Top 50 lemmatized verbs; "What do things do?" --------------------------------------------- 30298 be 9422 have 2577 do 2204 say 1764 see 1745 make 1591 come 1382 go 1236 take 1163 find 1111 know 997 give 893 think 859 tell 849 look 828 get 670 call 628 stand 616 leave 612 seem 602 write 590 lie 517 hear 511 pass 470 live 443 keep 391 meet 372 follow 366 fall 362 use 360 bring 353 let 350 become 344 build 343 read 340 walk 336 begin 332 carry 320 speak 319 bear 313 run 313 feel 310 hold 303 put 301 suppose 296 ask 293 believe 292 set 291 rise 290 die Top 50 lemmatized adjectives and adverbs; "How are things described?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 5300 not 2099 so 1566 very 1523 more 1488 old 1468 great 1292 now 1289 here 1191 well 1181 good 1147 little 1125 then 1123 up 1094 much 1029 only 1007 long 970 many 960 other 855 out 802 never 789 most 774 still 760 as 707 first 706 down 667 even 652 there 636 far 625 high 613 own 596 too 533 such 526 ever 514 few 508 once 508 away 486 again 474 last 451 young 449 however 446 same 437 perhaps 415 large 397 beautiful 395 just 393 small 390 always 374 enough 371 wild 368 off Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 239 good 200 least 156 most 87 great 64 high 35 fine 32 bad 29 early 26 near 24 large 23 old 21 sweet 21 eld 18 Most 17 slight 16 rich 15 lovely 15 happy 14 noble 14 late 14 deep 12 low 11 wild 10 strong 9 proud 9 fair 8 small 8 pleasant 8 l 7 pure 6 laird 6 grand 6 farth 5 young 5 topmost 5 strange 5 sad 5 lofty 5 dr 5 dear 5 dark 5 bright 5 bold 5 big 4 wide 4 soft 4 mighty 4 mere 4 mean 4 lively Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 633 most 37 well 23 least 1 oldest 1 near 1 long 1 highest 1 coldest 1 cleanest Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 www.gutenberg.org Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/39026/39026-h/39026-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/39026/39026-h.zip Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- 1 ccx074@coventry.ac.uk Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10 johnson did not 8 scott did not 6 _ is _ 6 _ was _ 6 johnson was pleased 5 johnson was much 4 man is little 4 man is not 4 time was not 3 _ did _ 3 _ were _ 3 castle is now 3 james was not 3 johnson said nothing 3 life is not 3 man had not 3 man is seldom 3 man was ever 3 place was not 3 scotland has ever 3 scott had not 3 scott was not 3 scott was only 3 scott was very 2 _ does _ 2 _ does not 2 country have beauties 2 country is very 2 day was calm 2 day was holy 2 day was long 2 day was showery 2 day was still 2 day was warm 2 house was so 2 johnson is often 2 johnson seemed quite 2 johnson was curious 2 johnson was highly 2 johnson was quite 2 johnson was so 2 johnson was then 2 land are cauld 2 land is not 2 land made blithe 2 man is always 2 man is so 2 men made perfect 2 night was dark 2 people are different Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 castles were no longer 1 countries do not commonly 1 country is no longer 1 day is not too 1 house being no higher 1 house is not ill 1 johnson gave no credit 1 land is not well 1 life had not yet 1 life is not only 1 life is not yet 1 man had not actually 1 man is not social 1 men got no farther 1 men had no other 1 miles see no human 1 people had no farther 1 people had no notion 1 people have no milk 1 people have not enough 1 people saw no reason 1 people were not backward 1 place was not likely 1 place was not unpleasant 1 scotland are not so 1 scotland has no right 1 scotland is not good 1 scott did not at 1 scott was not entirely 1 scott was not successful 1 side was no easy 1 stone is not lack 1 things are not very 1 time had not even 1 time is not far 1 time was not so 1 time was not yet 1 town give no air 1 town goes no farther 1 town have not too 1 water was not wide 1 years had not yet Sizes of items; "Measures in words, how big is each item?" ---------------------------------------------------------- 125913 6018 121580 47800 119401 54980 93860 38822 85286 37687 72299 41623 56799 2064 53606 45306 49470 39026 13610 42289 25174 Readability of items; "How difficult is each item to read?" ----------------------------------------------------------- 92.0 45306 88.0 37687 87.0 39026 83.0 41623 79.0 6018 78.0 38822 78.0 47800 75.0 42289 74.0 54980 69.0 2064 25174 Item summaries; "In a narrative form, how can each item be abstracted?" ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 2064 We left this little island with our thoughts employed awhile on the Elgin seems a place of little trade, and thinly inhabited. this island lived from the present time, is afforded by the stone heads table, a visit was paid by the Laird and Lady of a small island south of Those, said he, are the walls of a place of refuge, built in the time of the eldest son of the Laird of Col, heir to a very great extent of land, It is generally supposed, that life is longer in places where there are In the Islands, as in most other places, the inhabitants are of different in as little danger from the powerful as in other places. English, and had never seen any other places than the Islands of Sky, thoughts that naturally rise in places where the great and the powerful 25174 37687 the flowerets look like little balls of red or white wax prettily set in yew-tree yonder sheds its little round blossoms, as thick as hail; soon day; a journey thither in a great caravan like the Wanderer is still good-looking dark bay mare of some fifteen hands and over; Corn-flower of the word, though not old as a hotel of the kind, and all day long, A little very old man gets out from under a tree and stands as straight soon looked like that of a yacht in a rough sea-way. nearing the caravan whose looks Bob does not like, or whose movements he "Good-bye, old sea; we will be sure to come back again when summer days The first fortnight of life in a great caravan like the Wanderer is just How lovely the sea looks on a summer''s day from the hills around here! 38822 Beauty an Element of the Mind--Our Native Land--Auld Lang Syne--General Beauty an Element of the Mind--Our Native Land--Auld Lang God, form the great elements of their religious life. beautiful ruins of Holyrood House, at the foot of the hill, let us turn iron-hearted man, who "never feared the face of clay," and did God''s it is an insufferable thing for a plain honest-hearted man like John enter a Druidical circle without a prayer to God. He viewed the Creator chiefly in his attributes of love, goodness and In 1819 Dr. Chalmers removed to the new church and parish of St. John''s, in which place the writer, while a student at Glasgow College, [Footnote 33: In Scotland the old peasant houses have the fire in their _Sir Wil._--Command your joys, young man, till truth appear. years--(here the tears started in the old man''s eyes.) We maun a'' dee. 39026 come to a village like this, where men are allowed to live a little good, and most of them, tired after their day''s work, came to dinner in looked from the weary, silent old man and the row of tiny bare cottages, the little white town, with a pleasant inn, close to the waters of Loch in the sunshine, and the way the clouds came and went, made the day more better if many of the Islanders, like men of the east coast, became that day on the boat, with the shores of hopeless Harris in sight, Mrs. Thomas said to me, "There are two sides to the question, of course. the people came from far and near to meet in the little kirk overlooking met the people coming home over the hills, and still they walked each always expected people to come home wet, the landlord''s daughter said. 41623 Scotland has sent such majorities of her sons, since the old days when years afterward James Hogg comes down this way to visit his countryman, It was the only time Burns ever left Scotland, ever came into England. time) to Melrose; as Scottish kings of history and story have passed red-gray walls caught the light of day and the coming shadows of night Mary''s time all the world came to measure lances in Edinburgh. Half a century later the history of Scotland came to a climax, and Mary forget the clang of the tram cars, to look up at the great Castle Hill, Turn but a little and the Old Town lies before you, the castle splendid, That day our king comes o''er the water." Hither came Mary Queen of Scots, when she was five years old, here for Ayr looks well from the sea as one comes in, although in the day of 42289 4. Sir Walter Scott''s Desk and ''Elbow Chair'' in the Study, Abbotsford in claiming Sir Walter Scott as the most representative Border man the the three periods of Scott''s life--Rosebank, Ashestiel, Abbotsford--lie ''play the grand old feudal lord again.'' Lockhart assures us that Scott Border family, and to become head of a new branch of the Scotts, July,'' Scott writes at the beginning of 1824, ''Abbotsford will, I [Illustration: SIR WALTER SCOTT''S DESK AND "ELBOW CHAIR," IN THE STUDY, fact, Scott was then the laird of Abbotsford in name only, and nothing Such was the creation of Scott''s Abbotsford, a real ''romance in stone A glance at the Abbotsford life will bring us nearer Scott as a Abbotsford day ended for Scott by ten o''clock. Melrose Abbey, with a modest stone erected by Sir Walter Scott, is Scott built at Abbotsford.] same year Sir David Wilkie visited Scott to paint his picture, the 45306 they live, act, and what they do, and Billy wanted to know how Mormons much in old England, Billy told me, and have to serve long years at morning a long train full of empty cars came our way and we made it "Let''s hike out of this place, Billy," said I; "the best cure for the out a likely looking restaurant along the water front where a good meal The angry man now got the thought through his noddle that Billy wasn''t We got out of the place all right, the old man and I telling Billy said it was like getting money from home. "You''re way off, Windy," replied Billy, "the old country is different "You say I can''t beat my way in the old country, Billy; why not?" asked After a good long time I got down in the steerage and saw the steerage 47800 wandered far north of the old Border line of Tweed on the east, and beautiful surviving relic here of old days, was built under James VI and hills here is probably the scene of some great battle of old times. At Wedderlie, of old time, says Sir Thomas Dick Berwick yielded to the Scots in the dark days of Edward II., good Sir says that as late as his own day an old thatched two storied building Little more than a mile from that town, by the road leading to St. Boswells up Tweed''s southern bank, on a wooded ridge overhanging Teviot were for ever taking place in these Border hills, both in the days of as Scott calls the hills through which the Border Waters run, Yarrow, in Sir Walter''s day,--nigh on a hundred years ago landed a fish so huge, days long dead, the old house stands brooding over the past; and still 54980 little old-fashioned villages, the ruined castles and abbeys, all Scott was thirty-four years old when the ''Lay of the Last Minstrel'' So great was Scott''s love of the picturesque and especially of the old Church, where Colonel Mannering heard a sermon by Scott''s old friend, he heard the history of Doune Castle, a fine old ruin on the river later years, were not by any means the chief business of Scott''s life But Walter Scott was a young man, and in his great big heart there was since been known as ''Ellen''s Isle.'' The oak, old in Scott''s day, is The castle was built of the stones of the old Roman wall which passes The castle was a ruin in Scott''s day, presenting an appearance very It was characteristic of Scott, not only that every old ruined castle The old castle looked more like a prison than a king''s palace, and 6018 ''Sir,'' said Mr Johnson, ''a lawyer has no business Of Dr Beattie, Mr Johnson said, ''Sir, he has written like a man Johnson said nothing at the time; but when we came to the great door Dr Johnson gave him this character: ''Sir, he is a civil man, and a Johnson, after they were acquainted, said, ''I take great delight in Dr Johnson said, ''So great a number as a thousand is better. Mr Grant having prayed, Dr Johnson said, his prayer was a very good Dr Johnson said, that ''a chief and his lady should make their house dependence on his will, Dr Johnson said, ''You are right: it is a man''s Dr Johnson said nothing at the time; but when we were in our ''True, sir,'' said Dr Johnson: ''but you may ''True, sir,'' said Dr Johnson: ''but you may ''Why, sir,'' said Dr Johnson, ''I shall say nothing as to the