Predicate: snowball
snowball: Frames file for 'snowball' based on survey of sentences in the WSJ
corpus.
Roleset id: snowball.01 , to increase rapidly, vncls: , framnet: -
snowball.01: No VNcls.
Roles:
Arg1: thing increased
Arg2: endstate
Example: intransitive
person: ns, tense: past, aspect: ns, voice: active, form: full
But the rate of the decline snowballed in August , with unit sales to dealers for the month down 10.5 % from a year earlier , according to the Recreation Vehicle Industry Association .
Arg1: the rate of the decline
Rel: snowballed
Argm-tmp: in August
Argm-adv: with unit sales to dealers for the month down 10.5 % from a year earlier
Example: with Arg2
person: ns, tense: past, aspect: ns, voice: active, form: full
The Manhattan real-estate developer acted after the UAL buyers failed to obtain financing for their earlier $ 300-a-share [*U*] bid , which sparked a selling panic that-2 [*T*-2] snowballed into a 190-point drop Friday in the Dow Jones Industrial Average .
Arg1: [*T*-2] (= that)
Argm-slc: that -> a selling panic
Rel: snowballed
Arg2: into a 190-point drop Friday in the Dow Jones Industrial Average
Example: with cause
person: ns, tense: past, aspect: ns, voice: active, form: full
Selling snowballed because of waves of automatic `` stop-loss '' orders , which are triggered by computer when prices fall to certain levels [*T*-3] .
Arg1: Selling
Rel: snowballed
Argm-cau: because of waves of automatic `` stop-loss '' orders , which are triggered by computer when prices fall to certain levels