Predicate: fumble

Roleset id: fumble.01 , move ungracefully, Source: , vncls: , framnet:

fumble.01: FUMBLE-V NOTES: Frames file for 'fumble' based on sentences in brown. (from fumble.01-v predicate notes)

Aliases:

AliasFrameNetVerbNet
fumble (v.)

Roles:

        Arg0-PAG: entity in motion (vnrole: 35.5-Agent)
        Arg1-LOC: path (vnrole: 35.5-Location)

Example: a real path

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

        The man brought one hand up slowly and the fingers fumbled across his face until he touched his mouth.

        Arg0: the fingers
        Rel: fumbled
        Arg1: across his face
        Argm-TMP: until he touched his mouth

Example: sorta a path

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

        [Clyde Miller]-1 was crying softly to himself, [*-1]shedding his striped suit and fumbling into the nondescript butternut pants, the worn brown shirt.

        Arg0: [*-1]
        Rel: fumbling
        Arg1: into the nondescript butternut pants, the worn brown shirt

Example: noncanonical path

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

        Hoag stretched his left hand to the wall and fumbled for the switch: evil flourishes in the dark.

        Arg0: Hoag
        Rel: fumbled
        Arg1: for the switch