Frame Report

The Agent is the person causing a bodily experience in the Experiencer.

>The Body_part identifies the location on the Experiencer's body where the bodily experience takes place.

The Cause marks expressions that indicate some non-intentional, typically non-human, force that affects the Experiencer's Body_part.

The coat chafed a bit .

The Experiencer is the being or entity whose experience changes.

Do n't tickle me !

If the Experiencer is included in the phrase indicating Body_part, the Experiencer FE is tagged on a second FE layer.

Jolosa scratched her|Vic back .

Degree is the degree to which the Experiencer's bodily experience is affected.

The wool itched too much to wear it all the time .

This FE is any object manipulated by the Agent to cause the experience.

Rub the sore muscles down with the oil provided .

Any description of the event which is not covered by more specific FEs, including force (hard, softly), secondary effects (quietly, loudly), and general descriptions comparing events (the same way). It may indicate salient characteristics of an Agent that also affect the action (presumptuously, coldly, deliberately, eagerly, carefully).

An intentional action performed by the Agent that accomplishes the action indicated by the target.

Place identifies the place where the bodily experience is caused.

Time identifies the time when the experience-causing event occurs.

Circumstances describe the state of the world (at a particular time and place) which is specifically independent of the causal event and any of its participants.

This FE signifies that the state of affairs expressed by the main clause (containing the Cause_bodily_experience event) occurs or holds, and something other than that state of affairs would be expected given the state of affairs in the concessive clause.

This FE identifies the event within which the bodily experience is caused.

Depictive identifies any Depictive phrase describing the actor of an action or the affected entity.

Duration denotes the length of time from the beginning of the Cause_bodily_experience event to its end.

A fact or action somehow related to the Experiencer that the Agent responds to by causing an experience in the Experiencer.

How often the Cause_bodily_experience event occurs.

Iterations refers to the number of times the Agent or Cause causes an experience.

This FE indicates that the Cause_bodily_experience event is conceived as embedded within an iterated series of similar events or states.

Her sweater was itching her again .

The length of time from when the Cause_bodily_experience event began to be repeated to when it stopped.

Purpose identifies the state-of-affairs that an Agent hopes to bring about by causing an experience in the Experiencer.

A description presenting a separate aspect of the experience-causing event.

In a serious breach of decorum , he rubbed Merkel 's shoulders .

Result identifies the result of the Agent's action.

The Subregion_bodypart defines the precise location on the Body_part in which the experience occurs.