Аннотация
The paper discusses the issues of lexical and semantic organization of a group of verbs with the meaning of fear and the peculiarities of the functioning of verbal constructions in the works of A.P. Chekhov. Sentences with verbs of the emotional state of fear are quite common in the works of A.P. Chekhov. The differential meanings of verbs, the specific-temporal meanings of verb forms, semantic models of verbal phrases determine their functional features in the speech of a work of art. Verbs of fear attach forms with subject and object meanings with the semantics of the cause of the condition. Verbs in the form of the past tense of the perfect form realize the dynamic-productive meaning of this form. In the functioning of verbal constructions in the text of A.P. Chekhov's stories, an important factor is their ability to realize the specific temporal meanings of verbal forms as a means of organizing the text.