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putting and inserting

put X on Y needs a supporter; put X in Y (which parses as inserting) needs a container. An openable container must be open. Neither requires the item in hand: putting performs the take for you.

The author writes:

create the Kitchen
  a room

  A stone-flagged kitchen, warm from the oven.

create the breadbox
  a container, openable, starts open
  in the Kitchen

  A rolltop breadbox of waxed pine.

create the kitchen table
  aka table
  a supporter
  scenery
  in the Kitchen

  A long oak table, scrubbed pale.

create the loaf
  in the Kitchen

  A round loaf, still warm.

create the carving knife
  aka knife
  in the Kitchen

  A carving knife with a worn horn handle.

create the player
  starts in the Kitchen

The player sees:

> put the loaf in the breadbox
(first taking the loaf)

Taken.

You put the loaf in the breadbox.

> close the breadbox
You close the breadbox.

> insert the knife in the breadbox
The breadbox is closed.

> put the knife on the table
You put the carving knife on the kitchen table.

(Openable things start closed (ADR-231); the breadbox declares starts open, which is why the first put succeeds and the transcript closes the breadbox itself before showing the refusal.)