Roleset eat.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "consume":

Roles:

Arg0:consumer, eater


Arg1:meal

Examples:

intransitive (-)
TW's pitch was that sales and earnings at its restaurants have risen steadily and that people won't stop *trace* eating during a downturn.
Arg0:	*trace* -> people
REL:	eating




transitive (-)
Euro Disneyland shares made a debut like Snow White yesterday while most of the London stock market looked like it had eaten the Evil Queen's poisoned apple.
Arg0:	it
REL:	eaten
Arg1:	the Evil Queen 's poisoned apple

Roleset eat.02 Verbnet Class: 1 "consume fully":

Roles:

Arg0:consumer, eater


Arg1:meal

Examples:

only in transitive? (-)
Some analysts argued that there won't be a flurry of takeovers because the industry's continuing capacity-expansion program is eating up available cash.
Arg0:	the industry's continuing capacity-expansion program
REL:	[ eating] [ up]
Arg1:	available cash

Roleset eat.03 Verbnet Class: 1 "consume partially":

Roles:

Arg0:consumer, eater


Arg1:meal

Examples:

nominal meal (-)
``Cheerios and Honey Nut Cheerios have eaten away sales normally going to Kellogg's corn-based lines simply because they are made of oats,'' says Merrill Lynch food analyst William Maguire.
Arg0:	Cheerios and Honey Nut Cheerios
REL:	[ eaten] [ away]
Arg1:	sales normally going to Kellogg's corn-based lines
ArgM-CAU:	simply because they are made of oats




prepositional meal (-)
Personal-computer makers will continue *trace* to eat away at the business of more traditional computer firms.
Arg0:	*trace* -> Personal-computer makers
REL:	[ eat] [ away]
Arg1-at:	the business of more traditional computer firms