puff
puff.01 - smoke tobacco
PUFF-V NOTES: Frames file for 'puff' based on sentences in brown. (from puff.01-v predicate notes)Aliases:
puff (v.)
puffing (n.)
puffing (n.)
Roles:
ARG0-PAG: candidate for lung cancer
ARG1-PPT: cigarette, etc
ARG1-PPT: cigarette, etc
straight transitive
Not long ago
an acquaintance , a slick - headed water rat of a lad up from the maw of the cityARG0
, stood on the balcony puffingrel
his first cigarette in weeksARG1
.adessive
RachelARG0
wore a smart hat and , because she had been warned recently about smoking , puffedrel
at her cigarettesARG1
through a long ivory holder stained with lipstickARGM-MNR
.puff.02 - inflate slightly
PUFF-V NOTES: Frames file for 'puff' based on sentences in brown. (from puff.02-v predicate notes)Aliases:
puff (v.)
puffing (n.)
puffing (n.)
Roles:
ARG1-PPT: puffy thing
only adjectival?
He breathed now with his mouth open , showing a whitely curving section of lower teeth ; he kept his eyes , with their
puffedrel
blurred lidsARG1
, always lowered , though not , apparently , focusing .puff_up
puff_up.03 - increase
PUFF_UP-V NOTES: (from puff.03-v)Aliases:
puff_up (v.)
Roles:
ARG0-PAG: cause of increase
ARG1-PPT: thing increasing
ARG1-PPT: thing increasing
puff up the volume
It is interesting that , although the percentage of married students is not appreciably higher at Brooklyn than elsewhere -- about 30 per cent of the women and 25 per cent of the men in the graduating class --
the anxiety of the unmarriedARG0
has puffedrel
uprel
the estimateARG1
.