Best way to select parts complicated image?

I am designing a cover of a book and used to do it all in Photoshop, I know very well. I rarely use Illustrator and I made the mistake of buying a graphic ornament thought would be easy to modify, but turned out be quite complex or less complex for me. All I want is to move the inner loops on the ornament to the frame (make it smaller so that I won't have room for the title, and to shorten the down loop so it is not hang so far in the rest of the cover. Being a novice to illustrator, I thought it would be a simple adjustment (direct selection and press the arrow several times), but this chart is made of dozens, perhaps more than a hundred pieces grouped and regrouped in two layers. Nothing is marked and even determine which part to choose and how to choose it's really confusing. It's probably a stupid question to seriously, but Is there a way to simplify an illustration so that I can more easily select the pieces I am interested to adapt? I should probably just go buy an other ornament, but really like the look of it. Thank you!

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You can use the lasso tool to select arbitrary sets of anchors. draw as you draw a marquee in PS. It won't be easy but because move any part of which will mess up the curves.

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