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I believe you are asking about adjective complements, or adjective completers, words that complete the adjective. In your two sentences, the infinitives function as complements to the adjectives. ”’happy to sleep” and “reluctant to tell” Both sentences would be grammatical without the complements but would lose some meaning.
