simplebeing
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The sentence below comes from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. I don't quite understand why a present participle, 'tripping', goes after 'broken her leg.' Is that a regular usage - break one's leg + Ving ? I really can't find that in dictionaries. Can anyone help and explain ?
"It turned out she’d broken her leg tripping over one of her cats, and she didn’t seem quite as fond of them as before."---Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
"It turned out she’d broken her leg tripping over one of her cats, and she didn’t seem quite as fond of them as before."---Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone