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:
Alias | FrameNet | VerbNet |
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:
Alias | FrameNet | VerbNet |
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:
Alias | FrameNet | VerbNet |
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:
Alias | FrameNet | VerbNet |
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