Predicate: puff

Roleset id: puff.01 , smoke tobacco, Source: , vncls: , framnet:

puff.01: PUFF-V NOTES: Frames file for 'puff' based on sentences in brown. (from puff.01-v predicate notes)

Aliases:

AliasFrameNetVerbNet
puff (v.)
puffing (n.)

Roles:

        Arg0-PAG: candidate for lung cancer
        Arg1-PPT: cigarette, etc

Example: straight transitive

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

        Not long ago [an acquaintance, a slick-headed water rat of a lad up from the maw of the city,]-1 stood on the balcony [*-1]puffing his first cigarette in weeks.

        Arg0: [*-1]
        Rel: puffing
        Arg1: his first cigarette in weeks

Example: adessive

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

        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 id: puff.02 , inflate slightly, Source: , vncls: , framnet:

puff.02: PUFF-V NOTES: Frames file for 'puff' based on sentences in brown. (from puff.02-v predicate notes)

Aliases:

AliasFrameNetVerbNet
puff (v.)
puffing (n.)

Roles:

        Arg1-PPT: puffy thing

Example: only adjectival?

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

        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


Predicate: puff_up

Roleset id: puff_up.03 , increase, Source: , vncls: , framnet:

puff_up.03: PUFF_UP-V NOTES: (from puff.03-v)

Aliases:

AliasFrameNetVerbNet
puff_up (v.)

Roles:

        Arg0-PAG: cause of increase
        Arg1-PPT: thing increasing

Example: puff up the volume

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

        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 id: puff_up.04 , appear in puffs, Source: , vncls: , framnet:

puff_up.04: PUFF_UP-V NOTES: (from puff.04-v)

Aliases:

AliasFrameNetVerbNet
puff_up (v.)

Roles:

        Arg1-PPT: thing appearing

Example: old west

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

        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