--- title: The Real Princess — Andersen's Fairy Tales · full text with trees description: The Real Princess, «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: There was once a Prince who wished to marry a Princess; but then she must be a real Princess. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Andersen's Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/) / The Real Princess # The Real Princess The Real Princess of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen: the whole text, 22 sentences and 415 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/4/1/) — There was once a Prince who wished to marry a Princess; but then she must be a real Princess. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/4/2/) — He travelled all over the world in hopes of finding such a lady; but there was always something wrong. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/4/3/) — Princesses he found in plenty; but whether they were real Princesses it was impossible for him to decide, for now one thing, now another, seemed to him not quite right about the ladies. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/4/4/) — At last he returned to his palace quite cast down, because he wished so much to have a real Princess for his wife. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/4/5/) — One evening a fearful tempest arose, it thundered and lightened, and the rain poured down from the sky in torrents: besides, it was as dark as pitch. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/4/6/) — All at once there was heard a violent knocking at the door, and the old King, the Prince's father, went out himself to open it. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/4/7/) — It was a Princess who was standing outside the door. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/4/8/) — What with the rain and the wind, she was in a sad condition; the water trickled down from her hair, and her clothes clung to her body. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/4/9/) — She said she was a real Princess. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/4/10/) — “Ah! we shall soon see that!” thought the old Queen-mother; however, she said not a word of what she was going to do; but went quietly into the bedroom, took all the bed-clothes off the bed, and put three little peas on the bedstead. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/4/11/) — She then laid twenty mattresses one upon another over the three peas, and put twenty feather beds over the mattresses. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/4/12/) — Upon this bed the Princess was to pass the night. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/4/13/) — The next morning she was asked how she had slept. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/4/14/) — “Oh, very badly indeed!” she replied. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/4/15/) — “I have scarcely closed my eyes the whole night through. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/4/16/) — I do not know what was in my bed, but I had something hard under me, and am all over black and blue. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/4/17/) — It has hurt me so much!” - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/4/18/) — Now it was plain that the lady must be a real Princess, since she had been able to feel the three little peas through the twenty mattresses and twenty feather beds. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/4/19/) — None but a real Princess could have had such a delicate sense of feeling. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/4/20/) — The Prince accordingly made her his wife; being now convinced that he had found a real Princess. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/4/21/) — The three peas were however put into the cabinet of curiosities, where they are still to be seen, provided they are not lost. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/4/22/) — Wasn't this a lady of real delicacy? - ← previous: [The Swineherd](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/3/) - next →: [The Shoes of Fortune, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/5/) - ↑ back to [Andersen's Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/)