Roleset smell.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "notice an odor":

Roles:

Arg0:entity with a nose


Arg1:stinky thing

Examples:

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


simple transitive (-)
We see, smell and hear slums filled with ``the echoes of hawkers advertising their wares interspersed with abusive language, rattling coughs and the sound of people gathering spittle in their throats and spewing into the street.''
Arg0:	We
REL:	smell
Arg1:	slums filled with ``the echoes of hawkers advertising their wares interspersed with abusive language, rattling coughs and the sound of people gathering spittle in their throats and spewing into the street

Roleset smell.02 Verbnet Class: 1 "emit an odor":

Roles:

Arg1:stinky thing


Arg2:attribute of arg1

Examples:

person: third tense: present aspect: ns voice: active form: full


smells like Teen Spirit (-)
Embedded in the ``budget'' being concocted by the House-Senate conference committee is something that *trace* looks, smells and waddles like a duck.
Arg1:	*trace* -> that -> something
REL:	smells
Arg2-like:	a duck

person: third tense: present aspect: ns voice: active form: full


predicative smell (-)
``It's a Swiss-cheese factory and the cheese smells pretty good,'' commented one veteran lobbyist who was watching the proceedings.
Arg1:	the cheese
REL:	smells
Arg2:	pretty good