what is verbnet

VerbNet is a lexical database that provides an organized representation of English verbs and their argument structures. It groups verbs into classes based on their syntactic and semantic properties, and provides information on the possible arguments that each verb can take, as well as the semantic roles that these arguments can fill. VerbNet is widely used in natural language processing and computational linguistics applications, such as semantic parsing, information extraction, and machine translation. It was developed at the University of Pennsylvania and is freely available for research purposes.