'V over n' - Construction 4

Name: the fume over construction
Description: A person feels an emotion towards something.
Verbs: drool, fantasize, fume, fuss, gloat, grieve, moon, obsess, salivate, seethe, slaver, smart, swoon
Example: But he is fuming over the interference in his work... (BNC)
Membership: figurative 'over'; cognition
Semantic fields and roles: Field: Cognition. Roles: NP1: Emoter; NP2: Phenomenon
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