What is a sequence (2)

I'm mulling over what the term "sequence" means once again, and this time approaching it from what I've read of Patrick Hanan's most general "scheme of narrative analysis." What I was trying to do was to divide the text into sections that identify the "characteristic means of transition from one section of the text to another." Two means that I already had in mind were the breaks between description into scene (which is common at the beginning of the story); Hanan has it that these are changes at the modal level. The shift between description into scene is that between static elements and the mimesis of action.

I also had in mind changes to the focal level, or "point of view." (18) When we pass from description to scene in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," for example, the focus changes from the setting of Tarry Town, its environs and its history, to Ichabod Crane, his physical features and personal history. Isn't this characteristic shift between sections of the text an example of changes at the focal level as much as or more than the modal level? I suppose that what I am approaching here is the idea that scene sequences begin and end with changes to the text on multiple levels. The identification of these levels and their changes will help students summarize the story, build up the sense of configurative meaning, and, eventually, begin to construct the interpretive meaning of the story.