The problem of verbalization of concepts and ways of presenting them is increasingly attracting the attention of researchers. The texts of fairy tales encode the collective consciousness of the people, their history, culture, behavior and language. Fairy tales have an axiological approach, which allows us to speak about their high didactic potential. This article is devoted to identifying the features of the organization of the semantic space of the text of fairy tales about a lazy person, determining its axiological status. The article presents a model of discursive analysis of the text of fairy tales, the algorithm of which includes the main components of conceptual analysis and the analysis of the main text categories: character name, space, action, time. These components are defined in Russian and Chinese fairy tales. In the Russian fairy tale «Emеlya the Fool» there is a magical assistant – the pike conspiracy, which helps the hero to go through the path of socialization and growth. In the Chinese fairy tale «The Sloth», a ritual is involved as a magical assistant, which did not help the hero to go through the path of growing up. In the texts of fairy tales, it is established that the axiological status of the concept of «lazy person» in the Russian language has a negative and positive assessment; in the Chinese language consciousness – a negative assessment.