The gua(掛)-type verbs in Mandarin Chinese have a compound semantic features of"action and state".Based on data from Selected Works of Wang Shuo,The guatype verbs are analyzed and characterized by the degree of agency.In all of the 49 verbs collected,11 prototypical verbs behave like gua,and most verbs exhibit a prominent tendency of dynamicity.The gua-type verbs indicate such phases as dynamicity,telicity,and stativity.