It has been traditionally considered grammatical that transitive verbs take a noun as the object while intransitive ones do not. Starting from the Chinese verb "chi", the paper deals with these irregular phenomena from a cognitive perspective. With the cognitive frame of a verb, a set of inter-related latent concepts have been provided for the various collocations. concepts are arranged into corresponding slots of a sentence. Apart from the cognitive factors, the parataxis feature of the Chinese language also plays an important role. By parataxis, we mean that the Chinese language attaches little importance to cohesive devices, that is, the logic form of a sentence. Besides, it has been found that transitive verbs with nouns other than the patient after them are of the same nature as intransitive verbs with various nouns, and both of them can be well illustrated in a cognitive way. In other words, certain concepts in the cognitive frame have been highlighted through the principles of prominence,specificity and perspective and they in turn gain some extra prominence and then are raised to objects from adverbials.