"framework of the story" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to refer to the underlying structure or overall plot of a story. Example: The framework of the story follows a classic hero's journey, with the protagonist facing various challenges and undergoing personal growth before ultimately achieving their goal.
First, within the framework of the story, he makes bizarre things happen, and turns the world on its head.
For unconvincing reasons, the framework of the story is a visit that Tom makes to the natural history museum on the occasion of his 40th birthday.
But the framework of the story is provided by Deanna, a 45-year-old naturalist, living a solitary life in the mountains among the animals she is paid to preserve.
Silver is a modernistic master of melodrama whose films have long threatened, with the wild emotional force of performances, to break the framework of the story in favor of a quasi-documentary immediacy.
For Berkeley — who, with "42nd Street," from 1933, rescued the genre from premature senescence — there was no distinction between the diegetic (singing and dancing within the framework of the story) and the non-diegetic (an orchestra added to the soundtrack, a dance that's a fantasy number or ornament).
I've always had trouble keeping track of the game's intricate story and dozens of characters, so I'm not sure how many loose threads remain, or whether what seem like plot holes are simply places where I missed a vital piece of information, but it's nice to understand at least the basic framework of the story.
A few years later, at RKO Pictures, the Astaire-Rogers films came into being – where the gravity, beauty, and exhilaration of the set-piece numbers (effectively directed by Astaire) ignored the weightless framework of the stories and their inane romantic complications.
This time I want to apply the same framework to the story of our lives.
But you discover soon enough that if your heart is still breaking you cannot give a proper framework to the story of a broken romance.
Now, the framework of this story is familiar to most folks irrespective of how much time they spent in Sunday school during their formative years (or which -- if any -- religious belief they subscribe to), so I'm not sure how in-depth I need to go on that.
Marriage is so to speak the social and normal framework of the human story - adultery is the great act of individual self-assertion and longing.
