Predicate: snowball

Roleset id: snowball.01 , to increase rapidly, Source: , vncls: , framnet:

snowball.01: SNOWBALL-V NOTES: No VNcls. (from snowball.01-v)

Aliases:

AliasFrameNetVerbNet
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