Trouble is that it falls apart when you have more than one operation. "select socks and pants from drawer, and delete money from drawer" is the weird sentence structure. Whereas if 'from' comes first: "from drawer, select socks and pants, and delete money". Which, granted, is still weird, but less so, and fixable with better word choice. Perhaps: "open drawer, select socks and pants, and remove money.

Codd's original vision would have seen that expressed as something like:

    RANGE DRAWER D
    GET W (D#,SOCKS,PANTS)
    DELETE D:(D.MONEY=1)