Frames file for 'cower' based on sentences in wsj. Verbnet entries
40.5 and 40.6.
Roleset cower.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "shrink away in fear, cringe":
Roles:
Arg0:afraid entity
Examples:
the one example (-)
person: ns
tense: present
aspect: ns
voice: active
form: full
Thus, you do the public a great disservice when Mr. Greve
suggests, even facetiously, that the Clean Water Act prohibits
the preparation of a scotch and water; your tippling readers may
be led to believe that nothing but chance or oversight protects
them, as they cower in the night with their scotch and waters,
from the hairyknuckled knock of the Sierra Club at their doors.
Arg0:
they
REL:
cower
ArgM-TMP:
in the night
ArgM-MNR:
with their scotch and waters
'Cower in fear' is such a fixed phrase the the 'in fear' could almost
be considered argument-y.