Roleset puff.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "smoke tobacco":

Roles:

Arg0:candidate for lung cancer


Arg1:cigarette, etc

Examples:

person: ns tense: ns aspect: progressive voice: active form: participle


straight transitive (-)
Not long ago an acquaintance, a slick-headed water rat of a lad up from the maw of the city, stood on the balcony [*-1] puffing his first cigarette in weeks.
Arg0:	[*-1] -> a slick-headed water rat of a lad up from the maw of the city
REL:	puffing
Arg1:	his first cigarette in weeks

person: ns tense: past aspect: ns voice: active form: full


adessive (-)
Rachel wore a smart hat and, because she had been warned recently about smoking, puffed at her cigarettes through a long ivory holder stained with lipstick.
Arg0:	Rachel
REL:	puffed
Arg1-at:	her cigarettes
Argm-MNR:	through a long ivory holder stained with lipstick

Roleset puff.02 Verbnet Class: NONE "inflate slightly":

Roles:

Arg1:puffy thing

Examples:

person: ns tense: ns aspect: ns voice: passive form: participle


only adjectival? (-)
He breathed now with his mouth open, showing a whitely curving section of lower teeth; he kept his eyes, with their puffed blurred lids, always lowered, though not, apparently, focusing.
REL:	puffed
Arg1:	lids

Roleset puff.03 Verbnet Class: NONE "increase":

Roles:

Arg0:cause of increase


Arg1:thing increasing

Examples:

person: third tense: present aspect: perfect voice: active form: participle


puff up the volume (-)
It is interesting that, although the percentage of married students is not appreciably higher at Brooklyn than elsewhere -- about 30 per cent of the women and 25 per cent of the men in the graduating class -- the anxiety of the unmarried has puffed up the estimate.
Arg0:	the anxiety of the unmarried
REL:	[puffed][up]
Arg1:	the estimate

Roleset puff.04 Verbnet Class: NONE "appear in puffs":

Roles:

Arg1:thing appearing

Examples:

person: ns tense: present aspect: ns voice: active form: full


old west (-)
After walking out to his corral that morning, he'd been amazed to see the dust puff up in front of his feet.
Arg1:	the dust
REL:	[puff][up]
Argm-LOC:	in front of his feet