Collocations for tragic - adj.

be, seem

particularly, really, terribly, truly, very
a genuinely tragic figure in the play

quite, rather
a rather tragic story

Tragic is used with these nouns:
accident, blunder, case, character, circumstance, consequence, death, demise, dimension, downfall, drama, end, ending, episode, event, fate, figure, hero, heroine, incident, inevitability, irony, loss, mistake, murder, news, outcome, plight, role, scene, situation, story, tale, toll, waste