Predicate: frighten

frighten: Frames file for 'frighten' based on transformation of 'scare'. No actual sentences examined.

Roleset id: frighten.01 , frighten, vncls: 31.1, framnet:

frighten.01: Unlike some of the other verbs which haven't tried to distinguish agent and subject, you really must try with psych verbs. It's bad enough that we're ignoring the distinction between intentional agent and non-intentional (but still non-instrumental) agent. For example, in the second example, did Mary really *mean* to frighten John, or was it an accident? The former would make her an intentional agent, the latter an unintentional agent. This can only be determined by a LOT of context, which we don't have, and even then it can be hard to tell.

Roles:

        Arg0: cause of fear (vnrole: 31.1-Cause)
        Arg1: frightened entity (vnrole: 31.1-Experiencer)
        Arg2: instrument, if separate from arg0
        Arg3: intensifier

Example: transitive

        Such disclosures of big holdings often are used by raiders-1 *trace*-1
        to try *trace*-1 to frighten a company's managers.

        Arg0: *trace*
        Rel: frighten
        Arg1: a company 's managers

Example: with instrument

        Mary frightened John with her blood-red fingernails.

        Arg0: Mary
        Rel: frightened
        Arg1: John
        Arg2-with: her blood-red fingernails

Example: instrumental subject

        Mary's blood-red nails frightened John.

        Arg0: Mary's blood-red nails
        Rel: frightened
        Arg1: John

Example: with intensifier

        It won't take [much more]-1 *trace*-1 to ``frighten the hell out of retail
        investors,'' he says.

        Arg0: *trace*
        Rel: frighten
        Arg3: the hell
        Arg1: out of retail investors

Example: another intensifier example

        ``Small investors are absolutely dismayed that Wall Street is
        stacking the deck against them, and these wide swings are frightening
        them to death.

        Arg0: these wide swings
        Rel: frightening
        Arg1: them
        Arg3: to death


Predicate: frighten_off

Roleset id: frighten.02 , frighten and make go away, vncls: 31.1, framnet:

frighten.02: This is pretty clearly an intentional subject, but frighten off could also take an unintentional subject.

Roles:

        Arg0: cause of fear (vnrole: 31.1-Cause)
        Arg1: frightened entity (vnrole: 31.1-Experiencer)
        Arg2: instrument, if separate from arg0

Example: automatically generated

        [Their opposition]-1 helped *trace*-1 frighten off some Japanese banks .

        Arg0: *trace*
        Rel: [ frighten] [ off]
        Arg1: some Japanese banks


Predicate: frighten_away

Roleset id: frighten.03 , frighten and make go away, vncls: 31.1, framnet:

Roles:

        Arg0: causer of fear (vnrole: 31.1-Cause)
        Arg1: frightened entity (vnrole: 31.1-Experiencer)
        Arg2: instrument, if separate from arg0

Example: automatically generated

        Mr. DaPuzzo also complained that the sharp swings in stock prices
        lately is frightening away retail and foreign investors.

        Arg0: the sharp swings in stock prices
        ArgM-TMP: lately
        Rel: [ frightening] [ away]
        Arg1: retail and foreign investors