<?xml version="1.0"?>
<frameset>
<predicate lemma="simmer">
<note>
  Frames file for 'simmer'  based on survey of sentences in the WSJ
  corpus. 
</note>

<roleset id="simmer.01" name="to boil slowly" vncls="45.3">
<roles> 
  <role descr="cook, agent" n="0">
        <vnrole vncls="45.3" vntheta="Agent"/></role>  
  <role descr="entity simmering" n="1">
        <vnrole vncls="45.3" vntheta="Patient"/></role>
</roles>

<example name="intransitive">
<inflection aspect="progressive" form="participle" person="third" tense="present" voice="active"/>
<text>
 The issue has been simmering for years .
</text>
	<arg n="1">The issue</arg>
	<rel>simmering</rel>
	<arg f="TMP" n="M">for years</arg>
</example>


</roleset>
</predicate>


</frameset>
