Roleset paw.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "to handle clumsily":

Roles:

Arg0:handler, agent


Arg1:thing handled, patient

Examples:

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


prepositional Arg1 (-)
The hacker was pawing over the Berkeley files but also using Berkeley and other easily accessible computers as stepping stones to the network of computers used [*] by the military and national security agencies .
Arg0:	The hacker
REL:	pawing
Arg1-over:	the Berkeley files