“Now the tale of the moody land was one of rashid khalifas best -loved stories.”

“Now”-adverb.                                                  ” the”-article.                                                     “Tale”-noun                                                     ” of”-preposition.                                            “The”-article.                                                   ” moody land”-proper noun.                         “Was”-past tense                                            ” one”- noun.                                                    “Of”-preposition.                                             “Rashid Khalifa”-proper noun.                      ” best -loved stories”-noun phrase.          This is a simple sentence and the author used the past tense in this to show that Rashid stories about the moody land was one of his best stories

“As the words left his lips, a penny dropped.”                   as-adverb           the-article              words-noun             left-verb       ,-punctuation         a-article              penny-noun            dropped-past tense of drop         .-punctuation.          this is  compound sentence because it gets broken up by a comma also if you put a penny dropped as the first part it will still make sense.