Moving_in_place : roll-51.3.1












[22 : Somebody ----s PP ]
[4 : Something is ----ing PP ]
[1 : Something ----s ]
[8 : Somebody ----s something ]



NP (Theme) V () AVP (Direction)
NP (Theme) V () PP[to] (Direction)
NP (Theme) V () PP[with] (Manner) AJP (Result)
NP (Theme) V () AJP (Result)
NP (Theme) V () AVP (Angle) PP[on] (Fixed_location)
NP (Theme) V () PP[through] (Angle)
NP (Theme) V () PP[about] (Fixed_location)
NP (Theme) V () AVP (Manner) PP[in] (Place)
NP (Theme) V () AVP (Periodicity)
NP (Theme) V () PP[at] (Periodicity)
NP (Theme) V () PP[in] (Place)
NP (Theme) V () AVP (Direction) AVP (Manner) Sub (Manner)
NP (Theme) V () PP[from] (Explanation)
NP (Theme) V () AVP (Manner)
NP (Theme) V () PP[like] (Manner)
NP (Theme) V () AVP (Time)
NP (Theme) V () PP[during] (Time)
NP (Theme) V () AVP (Angle)
NP (Theme) V () PP[in] (Manner) PP[around] (Place)
NP (Theme) V () AVP (Angle) Sabs (Depictive) AVP (Manner) VPto (Purpose)
NP (Theme) V () PP[through] (Angle) AVP (Manner) PP[above] (Place)
NP (Theme) V () NP (Angle) PP[about] (Place)
NP (Theme) V () AJP (Depictive) AVP (Direction) VPto (Purpose) AVP (Time)
NP (Theme) V () AJP (Depictive) PP[above] (Place)
NP (Theme) V () AVP (Direction) PP[to] (Direction) Sub (Time)
NP (Theme) V () AVP (Direction) AVP (Manner)
NP (Theme) V () PP[up] (Direction) PP[in] (Path_shape) PP[as] (Time)
NP (Theme) V () PP[round] (Fixed_location) AVP (Manner)
NP (Theme) V () AVP (Manner) PP[to] (Result)
NP (Theme) V () PP[for] (Depictive) PP[over] (Fixed_location)
NP (Theme) V () PP[in] (Depictive)
NP (Theme) V () PP[in] (Explanation) AVP (Manner)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Theme) PP.result[to,into] (Result)
NP (Agent) V () NP.theme (Theme)
NP.theme (Theme) V () PP.source[PREP] (Source) PP.trajectory[PREP] (Trajectory) PP.destination[PREP] (Destination)
NP (Theme) V () PP.trajectory[PREP] (Trajectory)
NP.agent (Agent) V () NP.theme (Theme) PP.source[PREP] (Source) PP.trajectory[PREP] (Trajectory) PP.destination[PREP] (Destination)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Theme) PP.trajectory[PREP] (Trajectory)
NP (Theme) V () ADJ.result (Result)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Theme) ADJ.result (Result)
NP.theme (Theme) V () NP (Theme) V ()
NP (Theme) V () PP.result[to,into] (Result)


Examples from WordNet


The wheels are turning
The leaves swirled in the autumn wind



Examples from VerbNet


Bill rolled the ball off the ramp, through the tunnel, and into the hole.
Bill rolled the drawer to an open position.
The ball rolled down the hill.
The ball rolled off the table, down the hall, and into the kitchen.
The drawer rolled open.
Bill rolled the drawer open.
Bill rolled the ball.
The drawer rolled to an open position.
Bill rolled the ball down the hill.
The ball rolled.



Examples from SemCor


The water in Thor 's big swimming_pool had been covered with a blanket of thick, foamy soapsuds- fashioned, of_course, from ZING- Joyce had dived from the board into the pool, then swirled and cavorted in her luxurious`` bath'' while cameras rolled.
So is that of the limber company of lasses who whirl and glide and quickstep under Jack_Cole 's expert choreographic direction.
Instead, he whirled and ran to his house for a gun forcing them to kill him, Cook reported.
A tune began to whirl inside his head.
Carroll diagnosed Mrs._Hull by taking a drop of blood from her ear and putting it on his`` radionic'' machine and twirling some knobs( fee$ 50).
It made no sense to him** h He whirled around, suddenly hot all_over, finding the man who had been standing before him a_few moments back, nailing him to the spot on which he now stood, open-mouthed-
She had picked_up the quirt and was twirling it around her wrist and smiling at him.
All the while she sat there, her sinewy arms swirled before her chest.
Since the magnitude of the plan made secrecy impossible, once the had began to turn, persons controlling German industries, social institutions, and armed_forces became, through their anti-Semitism or their tolerance of_it, conscious accomplices of Hitler 's crimes; whether in the last degree or a lesser one was a matter to be determined individually.
Frozen, they stared at it whirling down the valley, gouging and spitting_out boulders and chunks of earth like a starving hound_dog cracking marrowbones.
Jesus, imagine, the crummy bastards, they 'll get em, they 'll get what 's comin to em** h He whirled about suddenly.