.a.the twig broke
b.Linda broke the twig

Processive concepts typically subject to this valency conversion

melt, freeze, wake up, plunge/sink, dry (up), go out [fire]; break, split, boil, open, close, change, turn, roll, gather, fill

Latin lacks labile verbs.
Many of these roots are basically transitive.
Consequently, Latin uses the passive and reflexive in “middle” function.

Latin detransitivization
strategymeaningtransitiveintransitive
passivizationbreakfrangofrangor
drysiccosiccor
turnvertovertor
rollvolvovolvor
plungemergomergor
fillcompleocompleor
reflexivizationchangemutome muto
turnvertome verto

Haspelmath, Martin 2017, "Universals of causative and anticausative verb formation and the spontaneity scale." Lingua Posnaniensis.