1. What exactly is an adverb of place?
I know that it describes where the action takes place.
"I was swimming at the pool"
At the pool = adverb place
But then someone told me that it can modify any direction of the verb.
"I stole the clothes from the store"
From the stole = sounds like the direction/place of stealing,
BUTTT... it also can modify "the clothes"
And what about this sentence, "I received a gift from him" and "I banned him from the school"

2. With stative verbs, I can't think of any adverbs of place.
"I want the book there" vs. "I want the book to be there"
In the first example, "there" modifies the book and in the second "to be there" is the direct object of want. I asked myself, "where does the wanting occur", it has many ambiguous examples, and then the objects become obsolete.

3. With stative verbs, what about adverbs of time?
"I want to play soccer tomorrow" vs. "Tomorrow, I want to play soccer"
In the first example, I think that tomorrow modifies the "to play", whereas in the second example, the "tomorrow" modifies the "want". But someone told me that adverbs can be anywhere in the sentence and still have the same meaning. What is the rule here?
And if I saw "He can be anywhere in the park" What does "in the park" modify?