Why not "once upon a time a beautiful but poor dude married a rich girl and everything was great"? Oh. Right.

Aladdin?

Aladdin walked from the slums to the palace, and married the princess?

I feel like some steps are missing, but I could be mistaken.

You’re right, the story is more than a sentence. You should remember though that Jasmine walked into the slums, met a poor thief and fell in love with him. He had to jump through some hoops and had a crisis of confidence before the end of the story though.

We naïvely bought a book of classic German fairy tales and somehow no such stories appear