Figure 1. Mental space representation of "In the play, Mary is excited"-Representing Mental Spaces and Dynamics of Natural Language Semantics

<p>Thus an entity can have a variable reality status depending on the mental<br> space to which it belongs. The mental space constructed by the sentence Poirot is a Belgian<br> detective is a non-real imaginary story space of which Poirot is an element. But when we say in<br> reality, Poirot is not Belgian the constructed space is reality space in which Poirot (the actor, not<br> the character) does not have the fictional nationality.</p>