Frames file for 'ransack' based on sentences in BROWN corpus.
Comparison to 'search'. Entry in VN class investigate-35.4.
Roleset ransack.01 "search thoroughly":
Roles:
Arg0:searcher, agent
Arg1:searched for, theme
Arg2:location
Examples:
transitive, arg0 and arg2 (-)
[*-2] Hastening to the attic , the temperature of which [*T*-1] was easily
hotter than the Gold Coast , you proceeded [*-2] to mask the windows with a
fancy wool coverlet , some khaki pants , and the like , and to ransack the
innumerable boxes and barrels stored [*] there .
REL:
ransack
Arg2:
the innumerable boxes and barrels stored [*] there