How to cut and paste on Sony XPeria Z1? Assuming a healthy phone, what is the normal procedure for cutting and pasting from editable text fields on Android? 

On my iPhone this pops up after selecting text, but I cannot even select the text on Android. The whole process is so intuitive on iOS I cannot even remember how I do it, it just happens naturally. On Android I can't work it out!

I'm mostly interested in version 4.2.2 and the multi-line plain text input used on the Wordpress app, though I have equal trouble with Notes and Chrome's address bar.

I want to occasionally move sentences around within a chunk of text, without duplicating them (so Copy is of limited interest, though I note it is equally difficult). 

I have a Sony XPeria Z1.

NOTE: this question is about cutting, not copying. Thanks.
According to Sony, on their phones you double tap a word and some draggable gadgets will appear. Cut, copy etc appear at the top edge.