tearjerker vs tale

tearjerker and tale both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
tearjerker	Yes	No	No	No
tale	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, tale is a hypernym of tearjerker; that is, tale is a word with a broader meaning than tearjerker:

tearjerker: an excessively sentimental narrative
tale: a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program

Other hypernyms of tearjerker include narration, narrative, story.

tearjerker (noun)	tale (noun)
an excessively sentimental narrative	a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program
	a trivial lie