Roleset flick.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "move rapidly and lightly":

Roles:

Arg0:cause of motion


Arg1:thing in motion


Arg2:path

Examples:

person: ns tense: past aspect: ns voice: active form: full


with path (-)
Greg's eyes flicked up from his instrument panel.
Arg1:	Greg's eyes
REL:	flicked
Arg2-up:	up from his instrument panel

person: ns tense: past aspect: ns voice: active form: full


with cause (-)
He nodded, [*-1] clasping and unclasping his hands over his paunch, and flicked glances at me.
Arg0:	[*-1] -> He
REL:	flicked
Arg1:	glances
Arg2-at:	at me

person: ns tense: past aspect: ns voice: active form: full


cause, no path (-)
I pulled the throttle of the tractor in and out, hoping to frighten him with the noise, but the snake only flicked its black, forked tongue and faced the huge tractor wheel, without fright or concern.
Arg0:	the snake
Argm-DIS:	only
REL:	flicked
Arg1:	its black, forked tongue

Roleset flick.02 Verbnet Class: NONE "touch rapidly and lightly":

Roles:

Arg0:toucher


Arg1:touched


Arg2:instrument

Examples:

person: ns tense: ns aspect: progressive voice: active form: participle


flick off (-)
There was a sound like the one you produce [*T*-1] by [*] flicking a watermelon with your finger, only louder, and Pops fell forward from the waist and then over sidewise.
Arg0:	[*] -> [*T*-1] -> you
REL:	flicking
Arg1:	a watermelon
Arg2-with:	with your finger

Roleset flick.03 Verbnet Class: NONE "produce an effect with rapid light motion":

Roles:

Arg0:causer of effect


Arg1:thing effected


Arg2:effect

Examples:

person: ns tense: past aspect: ns voice: active form: full


flick lights (-)
And I had hardly finished my business in the toilet on the aforementioned occasion when the lights in that place, like the hall lights controlled from the switch in the office, flicked off and on impatiently.
Arg1:	the lights in that place, like the lights controlled from the switch in the office
REL:	flicked
Arg2:	off and on
Argm-MNR:	impatiently