| often | 4 | degree |
| in a way | 4 | manner |
| in its meticulous historical detail | 3 | other |
| novel → be → gripping | 38 |
| novel → be → gripping read | 6 |
| novel → be → gripping story | 3 |
| negative | neutral | positive |
| 0.035 | 0.158 | 0.807 |
| Raw frequency | 47 |
| Normalized frequency | 0.445 |
| Modifier score | 0.733 |
| Perplexity | 166.884 |