FrameNet is a semantic network that links semantic frames, each evoked by a setof lexical units and consisting of frame elements (with semantic types, definitionsand relations) that outline the semantic structure of the frame, as well as frame-to-frame relations and annotations that illustrate the syntactic realisation of theframe elements. The Bulgarian FrameNet is based on the FrameNet and at the same time offers thepossibility to encode language-specific semantic structures, either by replicating orreconstructing existing semantic frames or by introducing new frames. An abstractrepresentation, called superframe, is developed to replicate language-independentinformation (at least for English and Bulgarian) from semantic frames. In the Bulgarian FrameNet, the conceptual frames inherit either all or part of the language-independent information from the semantic frames via the superframes and maycontain additional language-specific data to represent scenarios evoked by theBulgarian lexical units. Each conceptual frame is extended by a set of nouns thatrepresent the lexical realisations of the frame elements corresponding to the targetlexical units. The study presents the FrameNet, the creation of FrameNets for other languages,the motivation for introducing the conceptual frames and the superframes, whichcombine the semantic and conceptual frames in a multilingual network, and thestructure of the Bulgarian FrameNet, which includes Lexical, Grammatical, Frameand Syntactic sections (valence patterns). The overall aim is to present our approach to the identification and transfer oflanguage-universal knowledge from the FrameNet semantic frames, universal inthe sense that it applies to both English and Bulgarian, and the definition andintegration of language-specific components of the conceptual frames for Bulgarian(as compared to English).