The FrameNet Project:
Tools for Lexicon Building

Christopher R. Johnson
Charles J. Fillmore
Esther J. Wood
Josef Ruppenhofer
Margaret Urban
Miriam R. L. Petruck
Collin F. Baker

Version 0.7
Printed May 17, 2001

  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Typographic Conventions
  • Introduction to the Project
  • The Frame Semantic Basis
  • The Commercial Transaction Frame
  • The Speech Communication Frame
  • Using Frame Semantics in FrameNet
  • Annotation Basics
  • FrameNet Annotation Background Principles
  • FrameNet Annotation
  • Identifying Phrase Types
  • List of phrase types
  • Noun Phrase types
  • Prepositional Phrase types
  • Verb Phrase types
  • Complement Clause types
  • Subordinate Clause (Ssub)
  • Adjective Phrase Types
  • Adverb Phrase (AVP)
  • Quote (QUO)
  • Tagging Noun Phrases
  • Nonreferential NPs
  • Possessive Noun Phrase (Poss)
  • Non-maximal Nominal (N)
  • Standard Noun Phrase (NP)
  • Tagging Prepositional Phrases
  • Particles
  • Prepositional verbs
  • Complex prepositions
  • Preposition stranding
  • Preposition phrases with relative clauses
  • Tagging Verb Phrases
  • Finite verb phrases (VPfin)
  • Non-finite verb phrases
  • Tagging Clauses
  • Finite complement clauses
  • Non-finite clauses
  • Subordinate clauses
  • Tagging Adjective Phrases
  • Standard Adjective Phrase (AJP)
  • Non-maximal Adjectival (A)
  • Adjectives with complements
  • Tagging Adverb Phrases (AVP)
  • Tagging Quotes (QUO)
  • Assigning Grammatical Functions
  • List of grammatical functions
  • GFs for complements of verbs
  • GFs for complements of adjectives
  • GFs for complements of prepositions
  • GFs for complements of nouns
  • Assigning GFs to complements of verbs
  • External Argument (Ext)
  • Object (Obj)
  • Complement (Comp)
  • Assigning GFs to complements of adjectives
  • External Arguments of adjectives
  • Modified head nouns with prenominal adjectives
  • Postnominal adjectives
  • Assigning GFs to complements of prepositions
  • Objects of prepositions
  • External Arguments of prepositions
  • Assigning GFs to complements of nouns
  • Complement of noun (Comp)
  • Genitive determiner of noun (Gen)
  • Modifier of noun (Mod)
  • The FrameNet Process
  • An Informal Account of the FrameNet Process
  • Discovery of Frames
  • Definition of Communication/Statement Frame
  • Definition of Cognition/Categorization Frame
  • Definition of Cognition/Judgment Frame
  • Preliminary Exploration of Corpus Examples
  • Hand Marking: Inform
  • Hand Marking: Say
  • Hand Marking: Discuss
  • Creating Subcorpora for Annotation
  • Annotation with the Alembic Workbench
  • SGML Labeling of Frame Elements
  • SGML Syntactic Classification
  • Lexical Entry Preparation
  • Making Generalizations
  • Facing reality:
  • Resources used in FrameNet
  • The Corpus
  • Corpus Workbench: xkwic and cqp
  • Annotation Software
  • Lexical Entry Structure
  • Second Thoughts and Improvements
  • The Pseudo-Grammatical Function "EXTERNAL"
  • Implicit FEs
  • Frame Inheritance
  • Frame Blending
  • Frame Composition
  • Conflated FEs
  • Incorporated FEs
  • Deliverables: The FrameNet Databases
  • Introduction
  • Annotated files
  • Format of headers
  • Format of body
  • Frame-and-Lexicon Database
  • Frame Description Table
  • Frame Element Table
  • Lexical Unit Table
  • Frame Inheritance Table
  • Publications related to FrameNet
  • Frame Semantics Background
  • Recent Papers by FrameNet Staff
  • Domains and Frames: Descriptions
  • Inherited frames
  • Frame: Causation
  • Frame: Communication
  • Frame: Motion
  • Frame: Perception
  • Frame: Reciprocality
  • Frame: Transitive action
  • Domain: General
  • Frame: Duplication
  • Frame: Imitation
  • Frame: Joining
  • Frame: Replacement
  • Frame: Separation
  • Domain: Body
  • Frame: Body-movement
  • Frame: Manipulation
  • Frame: Posture
  • Domain: Cognition
  • Frame: Awareness
  • Frame: Becoming-aware
  • Frame: Categorization
  • Frame: Cogitation
  • Frame: Coming-to-believe
  • Frame: Differentiation
  • Frame: Evidence
  • FE: Support
  • Frame: Expectation
  • Frame: Invention
  • Frame: Judgment
  • Frame: Mental-property
  • Frame: Salience
  • Frame: Scrutiny
  • Domain: Communication
  • Frame: Candidness
  • Frame: Commitment
  • Frame: Conversation
  • Frame: Encoding
  • Frame: Gesture
  • Frame: Hear
  • Frame: Manner
  • Frame: Communication_Noise
  • Frame: Questioning
  • Frame: Request
  • Frame: Communication_Response
  • Frame: Statement
  • Frame: Volubility
  • Domain: Emotion
  • Frame: Emotion_Active
  • Frame: Directed
  • Frame: Experiencer-obj
  • Frame: Experiencer-subj
  • Frame: Heat
  • Domain: Health
  • Frame: Cure
  • Frame: Recovery
  • Frame: Health_Response
  • Domain: Life
  • Frame: Death
  • Domain: Motion
  • Frame: Arriving
  • Frame: Cause-to-move
  • Frame: Cotheme
  • Frame: Departing
  • Frame: Emptying
  • Frame: Filling
  • Frame: Motion_Noise
  • Frame: Path-shape
  • Frame: Placing
  • Frame: Removing
  • Frame: Self-motion
  • Frame: Transportation
  • Domain: Perception
  • Frame: Perception_Active
  • Frame: Appearance
  • Frame: Body
  • Frame: Perception_Noise
  • Frame: Perception-experience
  • Frame: Sensation
  • Domain: Society
  • Frame: Change-of-Leadership
  • Frame: Leadership
  • Frame: Sociability
  • Frame: Strictness
  • Domain: Space
  • Frame: Adornment
  • Frame: Expansion
  • Frame: Location
  • Domain: Time
  • Frame: Duration
  • Frame: Iteration
  • Frame: Relative
  • Domain: Transaction
  • Frame: Commerce
  • Frame: Expensiveness
  • Frame: Frugality
  • Frame: Wealthiness
  • Index