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A VR structure in modern Chinese consists of two predictive components. In the framework of the event semantics, the VR structure in modern Chinese is a comple x event consisting of two sub-events on behalf of the cause event and result event, r espectively. The predicate-complement structure in Chinese is a compressed type of e vents compositing of cause and result. In fact, the causal relationship between the tw o sub-events can be classified into CAUSE and BECOME categories. VR-Nong and VR-Gao are two typical structure in the CAUSE category whereas VR-Bian is a typ ical structure in the BECOME category. However, the semantics of Nong, Gao and Bian are ambiguous, which restricts the VR-Nong/Gao/Bian to only describe the chan ge of results. It is difficult to identify what causes the results. In other words, VR-Gao/Nong/Bian is a expression typically used when the cause event is unknown. Act ually, there are many reasons leading to the unknown of cause events. Sometimes it is because the intentional concealing by the speaker, or the speaker does not know t he cause, or there are too much to say about the details of cause. Therefore, this str ucture reflects the efficiency of languages. Based on the above understanding and the previous work, this paper studies the VR structure consisting of dummy verbs Nong/Gao/Bian from a perspective of the structure of event semantics. This paper is struct ured as follows:Chapter1is for introduction.Chapter2is for the review of previous work on Gao/Nong/Bian and "Verb+Resul tative" structure.In Chapter3, we brief the meaning of Gao/Nong/Bian in different dictionaries an d investigate the replaceable verbs Gao/Nong/Bian by in specific situations. Nong and Gao can often replace the verbs representing practical actions or behaviors while Bian replace those representing abstract verbs or verbs for natural power instead of specifi c actions.In Chapter4, we investigate the semantic characteristics of complements followin g Nong/Gao/Bian. The complements following Nong and Gao have [+controllable] and [-BECOME] semantic characteristics while the complements following Bian have [-co ntrollable] and [+BECOME] semantic characteristics. The complements following Nong and Gao exclude the subjects executing the predict while the complements following Bian only include the subjects executing the predict. To some extent, the choice of co mplements by predicts Nong/Gao/Bian is made based on the characteristic of the situat ion the complements are used.In Chapter5, we discuss the usage of VR-Nong/Gao/Bian structure in an event s emantic framework. In a VR-Nong/Gao/Bian structure, the two sub-events have a CA USE relationship. Although the relevance of the cause differs from weak to strong, th e result event always represents the change resulted from certain cause. However, this type of VR structure does not state what reason causes the changes. In fact, sometim es it is difficult to find a specific action that causes the change in some VR structure s. In other words, these dummy verbs only concern with the result behind the change instead of the cause of the change. In this case, the cause event has become a kind of background information.This paper concludes in Chapter6.