Frames

• Frames are collections of slots or features.
• Records in Pascal and other languages are Frames.
• In Java objects with no methods are Frames.
• Frames (and these other things) agregate features together.
• They bind useful things together so the package (object) can be thought of independently.
• Sentences can be described by Frames. So the name of the frame is the verb, and all of the other Noun Phrases and Prepositional Phrases are slots or features.
• Sandy hit Pat with the ball. ->
  

  Hit
  Actor	Sandy
  Object	Pat
  Instrument	Ball