I chose the first chapter of the Three Musketeers for my social network analysis practice. There weren't only seven major and minor characters in this scene who had speaking parts or were referred to as speaking to others. I decided the basis of the network would be if one character spoke to another character, even though some characters did physical actions, such as the employees of the hotel keep (aka host) did attack D'Artagnan and subdue him in the first chapter.

As for Gephi, I had trouble figuring out the controls since they were not very intuitive and the tutorials were not always clear.

So when I exported my network I got something like this, which had no labels, just shapes.

So I decided to take a screenshot instead (below), which came out much better and it's easier to see the relationships between the characters.

So, in this first chapter, even though D'Artagnan is the primary character, he is not the most active person in the network. It is actually his nemesis, referred to as "Gentleman," who appeared to be the most important member of the social network in the first chapter. The gentleman engages with almost every character in the chapter except for D'Artagnan's father, who is not present in the main scene at the hotel, but is referred to in the past.

I also had other attributes for the nodes, such as the character's sex and socio-economic status (noble or not), but was unable to get the hang of the system to change colors for the individual nodes.

Even so, the resulting diagram is a useful first step for understanding the relationship of the first chapter.