Rolesets - butter

butter

butter.01 - spread butter on something

BUTTER-V NOTES: Hand-corrected by Claire (from butter.01-v)

Aliases:

butter (v.)

Roles:

ARG0-PAG: Chef, butterer
ARG1-GOL: Bread, location/entity being covered in butter
ARG2-PPT: Butter itself, margarine

All arguments

SheARG0
buttersrel
her breadARG1
with Land O'HatesARG2
and it comes out of her pores .

All arguments, accidental arg2

In the agitation consequent upon this incidentARGM-TMP
sheARG0
buttersrel
her breadARG1
with the lardARG2
, and takes an enormous bite on the way up stairs .

butter_up

butter_up.02 - soften up by flattery, with an aim of getting something

BUTTER_UP-V, BUTTERING_UP-N NOTES: Added by Julia.

Aliases:

butter_up (v.)
buttering_up (n.)

Roles:

ARG0-PAG: butterer/flatterer
ARG1-PPT: entity buttered up
ARG2-MNR: buttery behavior employed

butter_up-v

If you rub them up the wrong way when
youARG0
're trying to
butterrel
themARG1
uprel
, you wo n't just jeopardize your official position , you wo n't even know what the consequences will be .

buttering_up-n

And
theirARG0
butteringrel
HimARG1
uprel
with flatteryARG2
before they asked it did n't make it any less obvious .