Roleset sniff.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "use the nose, smell":

Roles:

Arg0:sniffer


Arg1:thing sniffed

Examples:

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


didn't think this would actually occur (-)
``Texans can sniff a phony a mile away,'' the narrator warns outsiders.
Arg0:	Texans
ArgM-MOD:	can
REL:	sniff
Arg1:	a phony
ArgM-LOC:	a mile away

Roleset sniff.02 Verbnet Class: NONE "mode of speaking":

Roles:

Arg0:speaker


Arg1:utterance


Arg2:listener

Examples:

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


love this example (-)
``She just wiggled her fanny and all the French fell in love with her,'' sniffed *trace* the literary world's Maria Jolas, not entirely inaccurately.
REL:	sniffed
Arg1:	*trace* -> She just wiggled her fanny and all the French fell in love with her
Arg0:	the literary world's Maria Jolas
ArgM-MNR:	not entirely inaccurately

Roleset sniff.03 Verbnet Class: NONE "find":

Roles:

Arg0:finder


Arg1:found

Examples:

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


seek and destroy (-)
Their stock in trade as ``executive producers'' is sniffing out hot properties, locking them up and then getting big studios to bankroll and distribute them.
Arg0:	Their
ArgM:	as `` executive producers ''
REL:	[ sniffing] [ out]
Arg1:	hot properties

Actually arg0 should be 'they' but that's not available.