Rolesets - caress

caress

caress.01 - stroke gently

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

Aliases:

caress (v.)

Roles:

ARG0-PAG: caresser
ARG1-PPT: caressed

context? what context?

The doctorARG0
sat down rather wearily ,
caressingrel
the henARG1
and remarking that the city was not the place for a poultry - loving man ...

oddly intransitive

Her own body protested , aching painfully where the blood in her veins had congealed , where
cold demon wispsARG0
stillARGM-TMP
clung and
caressedrel
[*T*-3] .
ARGM-LOC: where

adjectival

Adam watched his own hands make the
caressingrel
, anxious
movementARG0
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 .