CHAPTER IEmma Woodhouse handsome clever and rich with a comfortable home
and happy disposition seemed to unite someofthe best blessings
of existence and had lived nearly twenty one years inthe world
with very little to distress or vex her She was the youngest ofthe two daughters of a most affectionate
indulgent father and had in consequence of her sister's marriage
been mistress of his house from a very early period Her mother
had died too long ago for her to have more than an indistinct
remembrance of her caresses and her place had been supplied
by an excellent woman as governess who had fallen little short
of a mother in affection Sixteen years had Miss Taylor been in Mr Woodhouse's family
less as a governess than a friend very fond of both daughters
but particularly of Emma Between them it was more the intimacy
of sisters Even before Miss Taylor had ceased to hold the nominal
office of governess the mildness of her temper had hardly allowed
her to impose any restraint andthe shadow of authority being
now long passed away they had been living together as friend and
friend very mutually attached and Emma doing just what she liked
highly esteeming Miss Taylor's judgment but directed chiefly by
her own The real evils indeed of Emma's situation were the power of having
rather too much her own way and a disposition to think a little
too well of herself these were the disadvantages which threatened
alloy to her many enjoyments The danger however was at present
so unperceived that they did notby any means rank as misfortunes
with her Sorrow came a gentle sorrow butnotat all inthe shape of any
disagreeable consciousness Miss Taylor married It was Miss
Taylor's loss which first brought grief It was onthe wedding dayof this beloved friend that Emma first sat in mournful thought
of any continuance The wedding overandthe bride people gone
her father and herself were left to dine together with no prospect
of a thirdto cheer a long evening Her father composed himself
to sleep after dinner as usual and she had then only to sit
and think of what she had lost The event had every promise of happiness for her friend Mr Weston
was a man of unexceptionable character easy fortune suitable age
and pleasant manners and there was some satisfaction inconsideringwith what self denying generous friendship she had always wished
and promoted the match butit was a black morning's work for her
The want of Miss Taylor would be felt every hour ofeveryday
She recalled her past kindness the kindness the affection of sixteen
years how she had taught and how she had played with her from five
years old how she had devoted all her powers to attach and amuse
her in health and how nursed her throughthe various illnesses
of childhood A large debt of gratitude was owing here butthe
intercourse ofthelast seven years theequal footing and perfect
unreserve which had soon followed Isabella's marriage on their
being left to each other was yet a dearer tenderer recollection
She had been a friend and companion such as few possessed intelligent
well informed useful gentle knowing all the ways ofthe family
interested in all its concerns and peculiarly interested in herself
inevery pleasure every scheme of hers one to whom she could speak
every thought asit arose and who had such an affection for her
as could never find fault How was she to bear the change It was truethat her friend was
going only half a mile from them but Emma was aware that great must
be the difference between a Mrs Weston only half a mile from them
and a Miss Taylor inthe house andwith all her advantages
natural and domestic she was now in great danger of suffering
from intellectual solitude She dearly loved her father but he
was no companion for her He could not meet her in conversation
rational or playful The evil ofthe actual disparity in their ages and Mr Woodhouse had
not married early was much increased by his constitution and habits
for having been a valetudinarian all his life without activity
of mind or body he was a much older man in ways than in years
and though everywhere beloved forthe friendliness of his heart
and his amiable temper his talents could not have recommended him
at any time Her sister though comparatively but little removed by matrimony
being settled in London only sixteen miles off was much beyond
her daily reach and many a long October and November evening must
be struggled throughat Hartfield before Christmas brought the next
visit from Isabella and her husband and their little children
to fill the house and give her pleasant society again Highbury the large and populous village almost amounting to a town
to which Hartfield in spite ofits separate lawn and shrubberies
andname did really belong afforded her no equals The Woodhouses
were firstin consequence there All looked up to them She had
many acquaintance inthe place for her father was universally civil
butnot one among them who could be accepted in lieu of Miss
Taylor for even half a day It was a melancholy change and Emma
could notbut sigh overitand wish for impossible things
till her father awoke and made it necessary to be cheerful
His spirits required support He was a nervous man easily depressed
fond ofevery body that he was used toand hating to part with them
hating change ofevery kind Matrimony asthe origin of change
was always disagreeable and he was by no means yet reconciled
to his own daughter's marrying nor could ever speak of her butwith compassion though it had been entirely a match of affection
when he was now obliged to part with Miss Taylor too andfrom
his habits of gentle selfishness andof being never able to
suppose that other people could feel differently from himself
he was very much disposed to think Miss Taylor had done as sad
a thing for herself asfor them and would have been a great deal
happier if she had spent all therestof her life at Hartfield
Emma smiled and chatted as cheerfully as she could to keep him
from such thoughts but when tea came it was impossible for him
nottosay exactly as he had said at dinnerPoor Miss Taylor I wish she were here again What a pity itisthat Mr Weston ever thought of herI cannot agree with you papa you know I cannot Mr Weston is such
a good humoured pleasant excellent man that he thoroughly deserves
a good wife and you would not have had Miss Taylor live with us
for ever and bear all my odd humours when she might have a house of her ownA house of her own But whereisthe advantage of a house of her own
This is three timesas large And you have never any odd humours
my dearHow often we shall be going to see them and they coming to see
us We shall be always meeting We must begin we must go and pay
wedding visit very soonMy dear how am I toget so far Randalls is such a distance
I could not walk half so farNo papa nobody thought of your walking We must go inthe carriage
to be sureThe carriage But James will not like toputthe horses tofor
such a little way andwhere are the poor horses to be while we
are paying our visitThey are to be putinto Mr Weston's stable papa You know we
have settled all that already We talked it all overwith Mr Weston
last night And asfor James you may be very sure he will always like
going to Randalls because of his daughter's being housemaid there
I only doubt whether he will ever take us anywhere else That was
your doing papa You got Hannah that good place Nobody thought
of Hannah till you mentioned her James is so obliged to youI am very glad I did think of her It was very lucky for I would
not have had poor James think himself slighted upon any account
and I am sure she will make a very good servant she is a civil
pretty spoken girl I have a great opinion of her Whenever I see her
she always curtseys and asks me how I do in a very pretty manner
and when you have had her here to do needlework I observe she
always turns the lock ofthe door the right way and never bangs it
I am sure she will be an excellent servant andit will be a great
comfort to poor Miss Taylor to have somebody about her that she is
used to see Whenever James goes overto see his daughter you know
she will be hearing of us He will be able totell her how we
all areEmma spared no exertions to maintain this happier flow of ideas
and hoped bythe help of backgammon toget her father tolerably
throughthe evening and be attacked by no regrets but her own
The backgammon table was placed but a visitor immediately afterwards
walked inand made it unnecessary Mr Knightley a sensible man about seven or eight and thirty was not
only a very old and intimate friend ofthe family but particularly
connected withitasthe elder brother of Isabella's husband
He lived about a mile from Highbury was a frequent visitor
and always welcome andat this time more welcome than usual
as coming directly from their mutual connexions in London He had
returned to a late dinner aftersome days absence and now walked
up to Hartfield tosaythat all were well in Brunswick Square
It was a happy circumstance and animated Mr Woodhouse forsometime
Mr Knightley had a cheerful manner which always did him good
and his many inquiries after poor Isabella and her children were
answered most satisfactorily When this was over Mr Woodhouse
gratefully observed It is very kind of you Mr Knightley to come
out at this late hour to call upon us I am afraid you must have
had a shocking walkNot at all sir It is a beautiful moonlight night and so mild
that I must draw backfrom your great fireBut you must have found it very damp and dirty I wish you may
not catch coldDirty sir Look atmy shoes Not a speck on themWell thatis quite surprising for we have had a vast deal
of rain here It rained dreadfully hard for half an hour
while we were at breakfast I wanted them toput off the weddingBy the bye I have not wished you joy Being pretty well aware
of what sort of joy you must both be feeling I have been in no hurry
withmy congratulations but I hope it all went off tolerably well
How did you all behave Who cried mostAh poor Miss Taylor Tis a sad businessPoor Mr and Miss Woodhouse if you please but I cannot possibly
say poor Miss Taylor I have a great regard for you and Emma
but when it comes tothe question of dependence or independence At
any rate it must be better to have only one to please than twoEspecially when one of those two is such a fanciful troublesome creature
said Emma playfully That is what you have in your head
I know and what you would certainly sayifmy father were notbyI believe itis very truemy dear indeed said Mr Woodhouse
with a sigh I am afraid I am sometimes very fanciful and troublesomeMy dearest papa You do not think I could mean you or suppose
Mr Knightley to mean you What a horrible idea Oh no I meant
only myself Mr Knightley loves to find fault withme you know
in a joke itis all a joke We always say what we like to one anotherMr Knightley in fact was one ofthe few people who could see
faults in Emma Woodhouse andthe only one who ever told her of them
and though this was not particularly agreeable to Emma herself
she knew it would be so much less so to her father that she would
not have him really suspect such a circumstance as her not being
thought perfect byevery body Emma knows I never flatter her said Mr Knightley but I
meant no reflection on any body Miss Taylor has been used
to have two persons to please she will now have but one
The chances are that she must be a gainerWell said Emma willing to let it pass you want to hear
aboutthe wedding and I shall be happy totell you for we all
behaved charmingly Every body was punctual every body in their
best looks not a tear and hardly a long face to be seen Oh no
we all felt that we were going to be only half a mile apart
and were sure of meeting everydayDear Emma bears every thing so well said her father
But Mr Knightley she is really very sorry to lose poor Miss Taylor
and I am sure she will miss her more than she thinks forEmma turned away her head divided between tears and smiles
It is impossible that Emma should not miss such a companion
said Mr Knightley We should not like her so well as we do sir
if we could suppose itbut she knows how much the marriage isto
Miss Taylor's advantage she knows how very acceptable it must be
at Miss Taylor's timeof life to be settled in a home of her own
and how important to her to be secure of a comfortable provision
and therefore cannot allow herself to feel so much pain as pleasure
Every friend of Miss Taylor must be glad to have her so happily
marriedAnd you have forgotten one matter of joy tome said Emma
and a very considerable one that I made the match myself
I made the match you know four years ago andto have it take place
and be proved inthe right when so many people said Mr Weston would
never marry again may comfort mefor any thingMr Knightley shook his head at her Her father fondly replied
Ah my dear I wish you would not make matches and foretell things
for whatever you say always comes to pass Pray do not make any
more matchesI promise you to make none for myself papa but I must indeed
for other people It isthe greatest amusement inthe world And
after such success you know Every body said that Mr Weston would
never marry again Oh dear no Mr Weston who had been a widower
so long and who seemed so perfectly comfortable without a wife
so constantly occupied either in his business in town or among his
friends here always acceptable wherever he went always cheerful
Mr Weston need not spend a single evening intheyear alone if he did
not like it Oh no Mr Weston certainly would never marry again
Some people even talked of a promise to his wife on her deathbed
and others ofthe son andthe uncle not letting him All manner
of solemn nonsense was talked onthe subject but I believed none
ofit Ever sincethedayabout four years ago that Miss Taylor and I
met with him in Broadway Lane when because it began to drizzle
he darted away with so much gallantry and borrowed two umbrellas
for us from Farmer Mitchell's I made up my mind onthe subject
I planned the match fromthat hour and when such success has blessed
mein this instance dear papa you cannot think that I shall leave
off match makingI do not understand what you mean by success said Mr Knightley
Success supposes endeavour Your time has been properly and
delicately spent if you have been endeavouring forthelast four
years to bring about this marriage A worthy employment for a young
lady's mind But if which I rather imagine your making the match
as you call it means only your planning it your saying to yourself
one idle day I think it would be a very good thing for Miss Taylor
if Mr Weston were to marry her and saying it again to yourself
every now andthen afterwards why do you talk of success Where
is your merit What are you proud of You made a lucky guess
andthatis all that can be saidAnd have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess
I pity you I thought you cleverer for depend upon it a lucky
guess is never merely luck There is always some talent init
And astomy poor word success which you quarrel with I do not
know that I am so entirely without any claim toit You have drawn
two pretty pictures but I think there may be a third a something
betweenthe do nothing andthe do all If I had not promoted Mr Weston's
visits here andgiven many little encouragements and smoothed
many little matters it might not have come to any thing after all
I think you must know Hartfield enough to comprehend thatA straightforward open hearted man like Weston and a rational
unaffected woman like Miss Taylor may be safely left to manage their
own concerns You are more likely to have done harm to yourself
than good to them by interferenceEmma never thinks of herself if she can do good to others
rejoined Mr Woodhouse understanding butin part But my dear
pray do not make any more matches they are silly things and break up
one's family circle grievouslyOnly one more papa only for Mr Elton Poor Mr Elton You
like Mr Elton papa I must look aboutfor a wife for him
There is nobody in Highbury who deserves him and he has been
here a whole yearand has fitted up his house so comfortably
thatit would be a shame to have him single any longer and I thought
when he was joining their hands today he looked so very much asif
he would like to have the same kind office done for him I think
very well of Mr Elton and this isthe only way I have of doing
him a serviceMr Elton is a very pretty young man to be sure and a very
good young man and I have a great regard for him But if you
want to shew him any attention my dear ask him to come
and dine with us someday That will be a much better thing
I dare say Mr Knightley will be so kind asto meet himWith a great deal of pleasure sir at any time said Mr Knightley
laughing and I agree with you entirely thatit will be a much
better thing Invite him to dinner Emma and help him tothe best
ofthe fish andthe chicken but leave him to chuse his own wife
Depend upon it a man of six or seven and twenty can take care
of himself
然后,You can convert it to one token per line with our tokenizer (included in the box) with the following command:
#location of the training file
trainFile = jane-austen-emma-ch1.tsv
#location where you would like to save (serialize to) your#classifier; adding .gz at the end automatically gzips the file,#making it faster and smaller
serializeTo = ner-model.ser.gz#structure of your training file; this tells the classifier#that the word is in column 0 and the correct answer is in#column 1
map = word=0,answer=1#these are the features we'd like to train with#some are discussed below, the rest can be#understood by looking at NERFeatureFactory
useClassFeature=true
useWord=true
useNGrams=true#no ngrams will be included that do not contain either the#beginning or end of the word
noMidNGrams=true
useDisjunctive=true
maxNGramLeng=6
usePrev=true
useNext=true
useSequences=true
usePrevSequences=true
maxLeft=1#the next 4 deal with word shape features
useTypeSeqs=true
useTypeSeqs2=true
useTypeySequences=true
wordShape=chris2useLC
Right now, most arbitrarily named features (like mySpecialFeature) will not work without making modifications to the source code. To see which features can already be attached to a CoreLabel, look at edu.stanford.nlp.ling.AnnotationLookup. There is a table which creates a mapping between key and annotation type. For example, if you search in this file for LEMMA_KEY, you will see that lemma produces a LemmaAnnotation. If you have added a new annotation, you can add its type to this table, or you can use one of the known names that already work, like tag, lemma, chunk, web.
If you modify AnnotationLookup, you need to read the data from the column, translate it to the desired object type, and attach it to the CoreLabel using a CoreAnnotation. Quite a few CoreAnnotations are provided in the class appropriately called CoreAnnotations. If the particular one you are looking for is not present, you can add a new subclass by using one of the existing CoreAnnotations as an example.
If the feature you attached to the CoreLabel is not already used as a feature in NERFeatureFactory, you will need to add code that extracts the feature from the CoreLabel and adds it to the feature set. Bear in mind that features must have unique names, or they will conflict with existing features, which is why we add markers such as “-GENIA”, “-PGENIA”, and “-NGENIA” to our features. As long as you choose a unique marker, the feature itself can be any string followed by its marker and will not conflict with any existing features. Processing is done using a bag of features model, with all of the features mixed together, which is why it is important to not have any name conflicts.
Once you’ve annotated your data, you make a properties file with the features you want. You can use the example properties file, and refer to the NERFeatureFactory for more possible features. Finally, you can test on your annotated test data as shown above or annotate more text using the -textFile command rather than -testFile.