Subjective_influence : amuse-31.1












[30 : Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something ]
[9 : Somebody ----s somebody ]
[10 : Something ----s somebody ]



NP (Stimulus) V () NP (Experiencer) ADJ (Result)
NP (Agent) V () VPto (Action) NP (Cognizer)
NP (Agent) V () INI (Behavior) NP (Cognizer)
NP (Cognizer) V () DNI (Action) PP[by] (Agent)
NP (Agent) V () INI (Action) NP (Cognizer) PP[by] (Situation)
NP (Cognizer) V () PP[by] (Entity)
NP (Entity) V () NP (Cognizer) CNI (Situation)
NP (Cognizer) V () PP[to] (Action) INI (Entity) NP (Time)
NP (Situation) V () VPto (Action) NP (Cognizer)
NP (Cognizer) V () PP[by] (Situation)
NP (Cognizer) V () VPto (Product) CNI (Situation)
NP (Agent) V () PP[into] (Action) NP (Cognizer)
NP (Entity) V () VPto (Action) NP (Cognizer)
NP (Entity) V () NP (Action)
NP (Cognizer) V () CNI (Agent) PP[into] (Behavior)
NP (Agent) V () CNI (Cognizer) AVP (Descriptor)
NP (Cognizer) V () PP[by] (Agent) PP[at] (Place)
NP (Cognizer) V () PP[into] (Behavior) CNI (Situation)
NP (Agent) V () PP[in] (Action) NP (Cognizer) VPing (Descriptor)
NP (Cognizer) V () PP[into] (Action)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Cognizer)
NP (Entity) V () NP (Cognizer)
NP (Entity) V () PP[towards] (Action) NP (Cognizer)
NP (Situation) V () PPing[into] (Action) NP (Cognizer)
NP (Entity) V () NP (Cognizer) PP[on] (Product)
NP (Situation) V () NP (Cognizer)
NP (Entity) V () NP (Product)
NP (Product) V () PP[by] (Situation)
NP (Entity) V () VPto (Behavior) NP (Cognizer)
NP (Situation) V () VPto (Behavior) NP (Cognizer)
NP (Cognizer) V () CNI (Entity) AVP (Time)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Action)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Action) PPing[by] (Event_description) PP[in] (Time)
NP (Action) V () CNI (Agent) AVP (Descriptor)
NP (Cognizer) V () PPing[from] (Action) PP[by] (Situation)
NP (Cognizer) V () CNI (Agent) AVP (Descriptor)
NP (Entity) V () NP (Behavior)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Action) INI (Cognizer)
NP (Cognizer) V () VPto (Action) CNI (Agent) AVP (Descriptor)
NP (Agent) V () INI (Cognizer) NP (Product)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Behavior)
NP (Cognizer) V () CNI (Agent) VPto (Behavior)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Cognizer) PP[in] (Event_description)
NP (Entity) V () NP (Behavior) PP[in] (Cognizer)
NP (Entity) V () NP (Behavior) 2nd (Cognizer)
NP (Stimulus) V () NP-PRO-ARB ()
NP (Stimulus) V () NP (Experiencer)
NP.cause (Stimulus) V () NP (Experiencer)
NP (Experiencer) V () ADV-Middle ()


Examples from WordNet


galvanized into action
..startled him awake



Examples from VerbNet


The clown amused the children.
The clown amused.
The clown's antics amused the children.
The little children amused easily.
That movie bored me silly.



Examples from SemCor


startled him awake.
Maybe one could be startled into forgetfulness.
Ekstrohm was startled in the morning by a banging on the hatch of his bubble.
The disclosure by Charles_Bellows, chief defense counsel, startled observers and was viewed_as the prelude to a quarrel between the six attorneys representing the eight former policemen now on trial.
She looked at the girl speculatively from eyes which had paled with the years; from the early evening lights of them which had first startled Izaak to look at her in an uncousinly way, they had faded to a near absence of color which had, possibly from her constant looking_at the water, something of the light of the sea in them.
The procedure for determining the amounts_of_money to be spent by county colleges and raised by taxation will certainly startle many taxpayers.