Is this participle construction correct?

Amy shifted her position, crawling closer to the other cell, and put her hand on the wall separating them.

I was not sure if "and put her hand on the wall separating them" could be past tense when it follows a present tense participle phrase. Forgive me if I don't know what I'm talking about.

Amy shifted her position, crawled closer to the other cell, and put her hand on the wall separating them. In this sentence all the verbs are finite verbs in past tense. It describes a sequence of actions.

Amy shifted her position, crawling closer to the other cell, and put her hand on the wall separating them.

I think I understand what you mean. Both sentence constructions are correct?

merakiI think I understand what you mean. Both sentence constructions are correct?

Yes, they are.

Thank you.

Now if I understand correctly (just to be sure), the second one is correct because "crawling" is a non-finite v

Modern grammarians call any syntactic unit with a verb (finite or non-finite) a clause.
Traditional grammarians called it a phrase, and used the term clause only for units containing finite verbs.

In either case, the clause / phrase in your sentence is a modifier, more precisely describing what "shifted her position" entailed.

Thank you. I finally understand.