--- title: The Princess and the Pea — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · full text with trees description: The Princess and the Pea, «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: Once upon a time there was a prince who wanted to marry a princess; but she would have to be a real princess. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/150/) [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/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / The Princess and the Pea # The Princess and the Pea The Princess and the Pea of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen: the whole text, 23 sentences and 384 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/pg27200/150/1/) — Once upon a time there was a prince who wanted to marry a princess; but she would have to be a real princess. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/150/2/) — He travelled all over the world to find one, but nowhere could he get what he wanted. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/150/3/) — There were princesses enough, but it was difficult to find out whether they were real ones. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/150/4/) — There was always something about them that was not as it should be. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/150/5/) — So he came home again and was sad, for he would have liked very much to have a real princess. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/150/6/) — One evening a terrible storm came on; there was thunder and lightning, and the rain poured down in torrents. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/150/7/) — Suddenly a knocking was heard at the city gate, and the old king went to open it. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/150/8/) — It was a princess standing out there in front of the gate. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/150/9/) — But, good gracious! what a sight the rain and the wind had made her look. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/150/10/) — The water ran down from her hair and clothes; it ran down into the toes of her shoes and out again at the heels. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/150/11/) — And yet she said that she was a real princess. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/150/12/) — "Well, we'll soon find that out," thought the old queen. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/150/13/) — But she said nothing, went into the bed-room, took all the bedding off the bedstead, and laid a pea on the bottom; then she took twenty mattresses and laid them on the pea, and then twenty eider-down beds on top of the mattresses. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/150/14/) — On this the princess had to lie all night. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/150/15/) — In the morning she was asked how she had slept. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/150/16/) — "Oh, very badly!" said she. " - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/150/17/) — I have scarcely closed my eyes all night. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/150/18/) — Heaven only knows what was in the bed, but I was lying on something hard, so that I am black and blue all over my body. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/150/19/) — It's horrible!" - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/150/20/) — Now they knew that she was a real princess because she had felt the pea right through the twenty mattresses and the twenty eider-down beds. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/150/21/) — Nobody but a real princess could be as sensitive as that. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/150/22/) — So the prince took her for his wife, for now he knew that he had a real princess; and the pea was put in the museum, where it may still be seen, if no one has stolen it. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/150/23/) — There, that is a true story. - ← previous: [Poultry Meg's Family](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/149/) - next →: [The Psyche](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/151/) - ↑ back to [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/)