The aim of the article is to describe situational structures in a specific type of press discourse, that is fait divers, and, at the same time, answer the question on how the receiver, when interpreting a discourse, creates a coherent representation of the fragment of the world the author considers to be an anomaly. The analyses are based on the typology of anomalies in ontological structures created by R. Barthes (1964), taken from the sociology of communication and its notion of an experimental frame (E. Goffman, 1991), as well as the notion of a cognitive event, developed from cognitive grammar (R. Langacker in : E. Tabakowska, red., 2001).