The sun melted the ice," or "The window broke. The golf ball broke the window" ("Unaccusative Verb" Wikipedia).
The unaccusative past participle can act as a nominal modifier: "the melted snow, the departed guests, the fallen soldiers"; this takes the subject dependent on the unaccusative past participle in content. Coincidentally, unaccusative unergative past participles seem all the more archaic, "the shouted victim, *the slept child, *the hesitated leader"; this grammatical justaposition lends a certain jarring, dissonant tone and idea to the sentence, whereby the unergative past partiple precedes the subject ("Unaccusative Verb" Wikipedia).
Unaccusative subjects can also be influenced by direct objects and passive subjects through the resultative adjunct: "unaccusative subject: The vase broke into pieces. direct object: John broke the vase into pieces. passive subject: The vase was broken into pieces. unergative subject: *John dined full/to death/two pounds heavier. subject of transitive verb: *John ate the brownies full/to death/two pounds heavier" ("Unaccusative Verb" Wikipedia).
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