要了

[philipbeckwith]

So I saw this apparently simple sentence:

 

王朋要了一杯冰茶。

 

It got me thinking, l learned before that when 了 is used for a marker of something that happened in the past, it should go with an action verb. 要 isn't an action verb. I would simply translate this as "Wangyou wanted a cup of iced tea," but I'm wondering if 了 has a different connotation here than I'm used to, or perhaps my ideas on 了were wrong. Can anyone help me?

[roddy]

It can often be worth having a look at the dictionary entries in cases like this, as there may be a meaning you're not familiar with. Here, 要 can also be 'to ask for' or (in a restaurant or cafe, as this seems to be) 'to order'. 

[Archer_R]

要=order

要了=ordered

[philipbeckwith]

Thanks guys!