Abstract
Analysis of narrative structure can be said to answer the question “Who tells what, and how?”. The first part of the question thus concerns aspects such as who is narrating, whether it is a character in the story or not, and if it is a first-person or third-person narrator. The second part is related to the story and its basic elements: characters and events, and how the sequence of events forms a plot. The third part concerns how the narrative text is constructed: ordering of the events, the perspective from which the story is seen, how much information the narrator has access to, etc.
Highlights
We assume that a text in its entirety can be divided into occurrences of the following three discourse levels:6 Highest level: Transmission from the author to a imagined, but explicitly referred reader of the work
The first part of the question concerns aspects such as who is narrating, whether it is a character in the story or not, and if it is a first-person or third-person narrator
Our annotation scheme is grounded in the basic levels of narrative transmission: author-reader, narrator-narratee and
Summary
Analysis of narrative structure can be said to answer the question “Who tells what, and how?”.1 The first part of the question concerns aspects such as who is narrating, whether it is a character in the story or not, and if it is a first-person or third-person narrator. The key part of our annotation scheme is related to the “who?”, in other words, keeping track of who is doing the telling (showing, speaking), and to whom To this end, our annotation scheme is grounded in the basic levels of narrative transmission: author-reader (highest level), narrator-narratee (intermediate level) and. We would like an annotation which represents as objectively as possible the basic events, the characters involved and the discourse levels through which the narrative is transmitted, without undue subjective interpretation. This is arguably the most difficult principle to attain, . The latter might build on what is produced by a standard automatic linguistic-analysis pipeline, involving, for example, sentence segmentation, tokenisation, part-of-speech tagging, named-entity recognition, syntactic parsing and co-reference resolution. In contrast to narrative annotation, we consider linguistic annotation to be a means and not a goal in itself, and do not include discussion of this here
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