Predicate: caress

Roleset id: caress.01 , stroke gently, Source: , vncls: , framnet:

caress.01: CARESS-V NOTES: Frames file for 'caress' based on sentences in brown. Verbnet entry 20. (from caress.01-v predicate notes)

Aliases:

AliasFrameNetVerbNet
caress (v.)

Roles:

        Arg0-PAG: caresser (vnrole: 20-1-Agent)
        Arg1-PPT: 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