In structural semantics, the actantial model, also called the actantial narrative schema, is a tool used to analyze the action that takes place in a story, whether real or fictional.
[3][4] The model considers an action as divided into six facets, called actants.
[1] Those actants are a combined framework inspired mainly between Vladimir Propp's and Étienne Souriau's actantial theories.
[6] Greimas' actantial model distinguishes characters and action elements according to their function within the plot.
The opponent, however, works against the helper and tries to prevent the subject from gaining the object.