Frameset

Predicate caress:

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

Roleset caress.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "stroke gently":

Roles:

Arg0:caresser

Arg1:caressed

Examples:

progressive

active

participle

context? what context? (-)
`The doctor sat down rather wearily, [*-1] caressing the hen and remarking that the city was not the place for a poultry-loving man...`
Arg0:	[*-1] -> The doctor
REL:	caressing
Arg1:	the hen

person: ns tense: past aspect: ns voice: active form: full
oddly intransitive (-)

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] -> where

oddly intransitive (-)
`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] -> where

person: ns tense: ns aspect: progressive voice: active form: participle
adjectival (-)

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

adjectival (-)
`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