Making_faces : nonverbal_expression-40.2












[22 : Somebody ----s PP ]
[2 : Somebody ----s ]



NP (Agent) V () NP (Theme)
NP (Agent) V () AVP (Degree)
NP (Agent) V () PP[in] (Internal_cause)
NP (Agent) V () AVP (Manner)
NP (Agent) V () PP[in] (Manner)
NP (Agent) V () AVP (Degree) PP[at] (Internal_cause)
NP (Agent) V () PP[at] (Internal_cause) AVP (Manner)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Cognate_event)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Cognate_event) PP[at] (Intended_perceiver)
NP (Agent) V () AJP (Depictive) PP[at] (Intended_perceiver)
NP (Agent) V () PP[at] (Intended_perceiver) PP[with] (Internal_cause)
NP (Agent) V () PP[at] (Intended_perceiver) AVP (Manner)
NP (Body_part) V ()
NP (Body_part) V () PP[at] (Intended_perceiver) AVP (Manner)
NP (Body_part) V () PP[from] (Location_of_protagonist) AVP (Manner)
NP (Body_part) V () PP[like] (Manner)
NP (Agent) V () DNI (Body_part) AVP (Degree)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Body_part) PP[to] (Intended_perceiver)
NP (Agent) V () DNI (Body_part) AVP (Manner)
NP (Agent) V () PP[over] (External_cause)
NP (Body_part) V () AVP (Degree)
NP (Body_part) V () AVP (Manner)
NP (Agent) V () PP[in] (Internal_cause) PP[after] (Path_of_gaze)
NP (Agent) V () PP[at] (Path_of_gaze)
NP (Agent) V () PP[from] (Location_of_protagonist)
NP (Agent) V () PP[from] (Location_of_protagonist) AVP (Manner)
NP (Agent) V () PP[at] (Intended_perceiver) AVP (Manner) PP[down] (Path_of_gaze)
NP (Agent) V () PP[at] (Intended_perceiver) PP[across] (Path_of_gaze)
NP (Agent) V () AVP (Time)
NP (Agent) V () Sub (Time)
NP (Body_part) V () PP[at] (Intended_perceiver) PP[up] (Path_of_gaze)
NP (Body_part) V () PP[from] (Location_of_protagonist) PP[out] (Location_of_protagonist) AVP (Manner)
NP (Agent) V () PP[at] (External_cause) AVP (Manner)
NP (Agent) V () PP[at] (Intended_perceiver) AVP (Manner) Sfin (Manner)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Agent) V ()
NP (Agent) V () DNI (Body_part)
NP (Agent) V () DNI (Intended_perceiver)
NP (Agent) V () PP.stimulus[PREP] (Stimulus)
NP (Agent) V () PP.theme[in] (Theme)
NP (Agent) V () PP.recipient[PREP] (Recipient)


Examples from WordNet


The girl pouted
He grimaced when he saw the amount of homework he had to do
mop and mow



Examples from VerbNet


She laughed in embarrassment.
Paul laughed a cheerful laugh.
She laughed her excitement.
Paul laughed.
Paul laughed at the sight of Mary slipping on a banana peel.
Paul laughed at Mary.



Examples from SemCor


This same flower that smiles today tomorrow will be dying''.
He smiled, but now that he knew where the elder Seward was, he did not intend to go.
`` Not to you'', she said smiling.
He smiled and stuck a large finger with white hairs sprouting on_it into his ear as though that might help.
Then, she was back on her feet, winking and smiling that enormous smile( she had lots of wonderful big teeth that you never would have suspected she had when she was not smiling).
`` I''- She broke_off, frowning.
`` Imagine you won't get your allowance if you 're caught not smiling- or smiling with your lips trembling too_much'', Arlene suggested.
He never smiled.
He smiled also at a British bloke seated next to me, who asked the_most asinine questions.
She was frowning.
He started to say something as I walked in and_then suddenly grinned and said,`` Oh, yes.
But our two Jeep mates- Keo_Viphakone from Luang_Prabang and John_Cool from Beaver, Pennsylvania- were beaming under their coatings of dust.
He scowled at her flowers.
His energy was prodigious; sometimes he would be up before dawn, clad as a garbage_collector and hurling pails into areaways to exasperate us, and thereafter would hurry to the Bronx_Zoo to grimace at the lions and press cigar_butts against their paws.
`` Scared the hell out of him'', Kahler grinned.
Both grinned at the detective.
When Deegan smiled his eyes never fit_in with his lips.
Never mind how much I cut it, how much I get'', and he smiled his sleepy smile again.
There was the squat loose_jowled man, smiling lopsidedly up at him.
Agnese, smiling too, said,``' Ello'', and_then more slowly,`` I am happy''.
She smiled and bowed, recalling the princess-in-a-carriage feeling she had enjoyed when she was a child.
Hal waited: Macneff paced some more, frowning.
She smiled, and the teeth gleamed in her beautifully modeled olive face.
In_that beautiful place, among all those companionable and attractive people, he sat and smiled.
I had once been a witness when Blanche had smiled and said with only minimum ruefulness,`` Oh, my souffle has collapsed''.
I grinned at him, handed him a_couple_of dollars and said,`` By the time you get the parking charge figured up, there should be a cigar in it for you''.
Then she turned_back to Wilson and smiled, and he was quite sure what she meant by it.
He simply turned_to Mike and smiled.
She smiled to herself.
Brenner continued to smile, but his eyes were cold.
She smiled at him wetly.
Lady_Da smiled at him often, but there was no love in_this_place.
`` I know, Stephen'', she smiled.
Mauve colored mouths that had never known anything sweeter than the taste of new wine and the passion of man 's tongue had not smiled, but had condemned again_and_again.
`` No'', she smiled,`` objected''.
He smiled, and said a word or two to the interpreter, who turned_to me,`` The President wonders where you are going after you leave Taipei''?
Almost immediately she was ashamed of herself for feeling vain, at such a time, in such a place, and she tossed_back her long yellow hair, smiling shyly as she entered the room.
`` If you go broke'', she said, smiling up at him,`` I 'll leave you''.
Beaming idiotically, he pooched out his lips and attempted to kiss her.
She smiled at him with benign, remote happiness; apparently her many torsos, stretched_out along the ground, had a greater capacity for retaining the drug than did his body.
Killpath leaned forward; his foot slipped off the chair and he put it back again, frowning now.
She had picked_up the quirt and was twirling it around her wrist and smiling at him.
I grinned at Rachel.
Michelangelo grinned.
He peered ahead and grinned as the railroad_tracks came into view again below.
See, he 's already snapping it up, the dumb jerk** h Coughlin grinned, feeling supremely on_top_of things** h He watched the snow once_again.
He also had, at_times, an uncanny absent-minded air like a sleepwalker; he would look right through you while you were talking to him, and if you said,`` For_Christ's_sake, Donald, you 've got Prussian_blue all_over your shirt'', he would smile, and nod, and an hour later the paint would be all_over his pants as_well.
Suddenly he grinned.
Rabbi_Melzi smiled at him with infinitely old but merry eyes.
Andrei smiled.
Mavis smiled.
Ekstrohm scowled.
And so, still wondering and a_little perplexed, he grinned at the girl and spoke lightly to make_sure that she would know he was kidding.
Smiling at his quixotic thoughts, Warren turned_back from the opening and lit a cigarette before sitting_down.
She smiled at Winston, and he saw the hateful hard glitter in her eyes.
( He always smiles- at_least at visitors, I gather.
Seeming much relieved, she smiled one of those worth waiting for smiles, and I smiled all_the_way into the bedroom.
Some such youngsters rarely smile, or they try to speak with the mouth closed.
She smiled in a sickly-tolerant fashion.
When the sun came_out, Stevie strode proudly into Orange_Square, smiling like a landlord on industrious tenants.
of the party Chandler looked up to see four smiling faces bearing_down upon him, each beaming above the biggest, greenest shamrock he had ever seen.
He grinned, nodded, and walked_around to the front of the car.
`` Time'', said Angie, and he smiled very sweet and slow at Mr._Skyros.
She stood frowning and chewing her lip.
One day, Ching had told him( smiling, patting him on the back) as they walked to the weekly conference of squad leaders,`` Keep it up, your squad is good, one of the best, keep it up, keep_up the good work''.
A time_plan is a mere convenience, you understand, and when''- He interrupted himself, smiling.
`` Hush'', said Uncle_Randolph, smiling,`` or I 'll give you another black_eye''.
He smiled.
They both tried to keep smiling and winking for a long_time, but it made their lips and eyelids tremble.
`` Dead center at three hundred yards, that coroner said''! he 'd grin.
I showed her the shower and tub, and she said, smiling,`` If you really do mind, I think I 'll get clean in the shower, then soak for a_few minutes in your tub.
Roy smiled- he did have a nice smile- took_off his hat most politely, told her to hop in, and he 'd give her a lift to Quinzaine.
Then Killpath smiled.
This happy, always smiling lad with the sunny disposition is our new Junior_Mr._Canada- Henri_de_Courcy.
Mercer smiled at her through his happiness.
She smiled vaguely at Henrietta and the old_man.
He saw the child-face grimace as the head was cut; he felt the far, cool flash of unimportant pain, as B' dikkat dabbed the wound with a corrosive antiseptic which stopped all bleeding immediately.
`` The white colonnaded, cedar-roofed Southern mansion is directly traceable via the grey and buff stone of grey-skied England to the golden stucco of one particular part of the_blue South, the Palladian orbit stretching out from Vicenza: the old mind of Andrea_Palladio still smiles from behind many_an old rocking_chair on a Southern porch, the deep friezes of his architectonic music rise firm above the shallower freeze in the kitchen, his feeling for light and shade brings a glitter from a tall mint_julep, his sense of columns framing the warm velvet night has brought_together a_million couple of mating lips''.
Frowning, Miss_Ada studied the list.
Smiling at Warren 's protestations, the old monk took his grip from him and led him down a corridor to a small parlor.
Marty smiled at Squire pleasantly and said,`` There was a cab waiting for me here.
She frowned at his green pajamas with the yellow moons.
He took the reins just below the bit and held them firmly, and it was his turn to smile now.
`` And whiskey'', she said, smiling and blinking at the highball glasses.
Rachel grinned slyly.
She smiled slightly.
He made a point of frowning, of acting_out the part of the fond father confessor.
I smiled.
He smiled thinly, savoring his joke.
Ekstrohm smiled, and followed the captain through the airlock with only a glance at the lapel gauge on his coverall.
He frowned.
This time B' dikkat smiled pleasantly at the little head which had grown out of Mercer 's thigh- a sleeping child 's head, covered with light hair on top and with dainty eyebrows over the resting eyes.
She stood there, a large old_woman, smiling at the things she would say to him in the morning, this big foolish baby of a son.
At a gay party in the Kremlin for President_Sukarno of Indonesia, Premier_Khrushchev pulled_out his pockets and said, beaming:`` Look, he took everything I had''!
Casey watched them go, still frowning absently and_then dismissing the matter as he called_for his check.
Phil shook his head and Eddie frowned.
Plunking themselves down on the front bench, they turned to smirk at those around them.
When they walked into the Ferraro apartment, the old lady, bowing and smiling, said softly.
When no one smiled, he felt constrained to add,`` Just kidding, natch''.
She smiled.
Mr._Podger smiled.
I grinned, but ignored the question.
Macneff smiled and said,`` I am glad that your scriptural lessons have left such an impression''.
The monitor of_this discourse grinned with_pride and amusement as Helva 's tone indicated pity for the unfortunate.