Predicate: caress

caress: Frames file for 'caress' based on sentences in brown. Verbnet entry 20.

Roleset id: caress.01 , stroke gently, vncls: 20-1, framnet:

Roles:

        Arg0: caresser (vnrole: 20-1-Agent)
        Arg1: caressed (vnrole: 20-1-Experiencer)

Example: context? what context?

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

        [The doctor]*-1 sat down rather wearily, [*-1] caressing the hen and
        remarking that the city was not the place for a poultry-loving
        man...

        Arg0: [*-1]
        Rel: caressing
        Arg1: the hen

Example: oddly intransitive

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

        Her own body protested, aching painfully where the blood in her
        veins had congealed, where cold demon wisps still clung and
        caressed [*T*-3].

        Arg0: cold demon wisps
        ArgM-TMP: still
        Rel: caressed
        ArgM-LOC: [*T*-3]

Example: adjectival

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

        Adam watched his own hands make the caressing, anxious movement
        that, when rain falls and nobody comes, and ruin draws close like
        a cat rubbing against the ankles, has been the ritual of stall
        vendors, forever.

        Rel: caressing
        Arg0: movement