Predicate: snowball
Roleset id: snowball.01 , to increase rapidly, Source: , vncls: , framnet:
snowball.01: SNOWBALL-V NOTES: No VNcls. (from snowball.01-v)
Aliases:
Alias | FrameNet | VerbNet |
snowball (v.) | | |
Roles:
        Arg1-PPT: thing increased
        Arg2-PRD: 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