From Once Upon a Time to Happily Ever After:Tracking Emotions in Novels and Fairy Tales
Table 2: Density of polarity words in novels and fairy tales: number of polar words in every 10,000 words.
['[EMPTY]', '[BOLD] negative mean', '[BOLD] negative  [ITALIC] σ', '[BOLD] positive mean', '[BOLD] positive  [ITALIC] σ']
The table states, for example, that for every 10,000 words in the CEN, one can expect to see about 1670 negative words. We find that fairy tales, on average, have a significantly lower number of negative terms, and a significantly higher number of positive words (p<0.001).