parse vs dissect

parse and dissect both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
parse	No	No	Yes	No
dissect	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, dissect is a hypernym of parse; that is, dissect is a word with a broader meaning than parse:

parse: analyze syntactically by assigning a constituent structure to (a sentence)
dissect: make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features

Other hypernyms of parse include analyse, analyze, break down, take apart.

parse (verb)	dissect (verb)
analyze syntactically by assigning a constituent structure to (a sentence)	make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features
	cut open or cut apart