As the effect of the two actions (1a) and (2a), it is inferred that the specified location (counter in (1a), bag in (2a)) has been "emptied" of the object (fingerprints in (1a), groceries in (2a)).
(Levin and Rappaport Hovav, 1992) defines classes of verbs according to the ability or inability of a verb to occur in pairs of syntactic frames that preserve meaning.