Roleset shave.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "to cut":

Roles:

Arg0:agent, cutter


Arg1:thing or amount cut


Arg2:source


Arg3:instrument

Examples:

person: ns tense: ns aspect: ns voice: active form: gerund


with direction (-)
Shaving away some of the gain in that unit was [*T*-1] a decline in U.S. oil production to 502,000 barrels of oil a day during the quarter from 527,000 barrels a day last year .
REL:	Shaving
ArgM-DIR:	away
Arg1:	some of the gain in that unit

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


with Arg2 (-)
Some weeks when her supermarket runs a double-coupon promotion [*T*-1] , she boasts that she shaves $ 22 [*U*] off her bill .
Arg0:	she
REL:	shaves
Arg1:	$ 22 [*U*]
Arg2-off:	her bill

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


transitive (-)
It attracts people with funny hair ( or with no hair -- in front of me a girl with spiked locks sat beside a boy who [*T*-1] had shaved his ) .
Arg0:	[*T*-1] -> who -> a boy
REL:	shaved
Arg1:	his