Roleset fumble.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "move ungracefully":

Roles:

Arg0:entity in motion


Arg1:path

Examples:

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


a real path (-)
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:	across his face
Argm-TMP:	until he touched his mouth

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


sorta a path (-)
Clyde Miller was crying softly to himself, [*-1] shedding his striped suit and fumbling into the nondescript butternut pants, the worn brown shirt.
Arg0:	[*-1] -> Clyde Miller
REL:	fumbling
Arg1-into:	into the nondescript butternut pants, the worn brown shirt

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


noncanonical path (-)
Hoag stretched his left hand to the wall and fumbled for the switch: evil flourishes in the dark.
Arg0:	Hoag
REL:	fumbled
Arg1-for:	for the switch