Learn Dutch: De hond komt onder de wip in de speeltuin tevoorschijn kruipen. - The dog comes crawling out from under the seesaw in the playground.

To express how a subject arrives, Dutch uses the conjugated verb komen alongside the bare infinitive of the motion verb placed at the end of the clause. Here, komt pairs with kruipen to mean 'comes crawling'.

Is tevoorschijn connected to komt or to kruipen?

It acts as a prefix to the infinitive kruipen, forming the compound idea tevoorschijn kruipen (to crawl out / to emerge crawling). While you might recognize it from the common phrase tevoorschijn komen (to appear), here the main action is crawling into view, so it attaches to kruipen.

The English translation says 'from under', but the Dutch sentence only uses onder. Why isn't there a word for 'from'?

When paired with a verb of motion that indicates emerging or moving outward, prepositions of location like onder (under) or achter (behind) naturally imply the starting point of that motion. The 'from' is already baked into the context of the movement, so a separate word like van isn't needed.

Why does onder de wip come before in de speeltuin?

In Dutch, when you have multiple descriptions of place or direction, the specific direction or source of the movement (the dog emerging from under the seesaw) usually comes before the broader, general location where the whole event is happening (the playground).