The princess said, "That I know."

Two words, and they walk her into it. (曉得 takes the light de.)

Pilgrim said, "You womenfolk — what should you know?"

女流家, nǚ liú jiā, "womenfolk," women as a class — a dismissive idiom, and deliberately provoking. He wants her to prove she has read something.

The princess said, "From my childhood in the palace I received the teaching of my father and mother.

自幼, zì yòu, from childhood; 教訓, jiào xùn, instruction, moral teaching, with 教 read jiào. She rises to the bait, exactly as intended.

I recall the old books say: 'Of the offences that fall under the Five Punishments there are three thousand, yet no crime is greater than unfiliality.'"

And out comes the text he wanted. 五刑之屬三千, wǔ xíng zhī shǔ sān qiān, "of the offences falling under the Five Punishments there are three thousand," is from the Classic of Filial Piety — 屬 read shǔ, "category." She has just handed Wukong the premise of his argument, and he takes it in the very next line.

Pilgrim said, "Then you are precisely one who is unfilial.

不孝之人, bù xiào zhī rén, an unfilial person. He does not dispute her maxim; he agrees with it and turns it round. This is the oldest debating trick there is, and the Monkey King performs it flawlessly.

For as it is said: 'My father begot me, my mother nurtured me.

Now he raises the stakes with the Book of Songs — and the way he quotes it repays attention. 父兮生我，母兮鞠我, fù xī shēng wǒ, mǔ xī jū wǒ, "my father begot me, my mother nurtured me," opens the fourth stanza of the poem known as 蓼莪, Lù'é; 鞠 here means to rear. The couplet he tacks on to it in the next breath, though, comes from the poem's first stanza. Two non-adjacent couplets welded together, with the later one placed first — which is how vernacular fiction generally quotes the canon: from memory, and for effect.

Alas, alas for my father and mother, who bore me in toil and pain.'

哀哀父母, āi āi fù mǔ, "alas, alas for my father and mother"; 劬勞, qú láo, the grinding toil of bringing up a child. These two lines close the poem's opening stanza, and they carry a weight in Chinese that no translation quite conveys. The 晉書 records that Wáng Póu, whose father had been executed unjustly, could never read as far as this couplet without breaking down — so his students quietly struck 蓼莪 from the syllabus rather than make him teach it. Wukong is quoting the couplet that scholars stopped reading aloud, at a woman who has not seen her parents in thirteen years.

Thus filial devotion is the fountainhead of the hundred conducts and the root of the myriad goods.

百行之原, bǎi xíng zhī yuán, the fountainhead of the hundred conducts — 行 read xíng, conduct. 萬善之本, wàn shàn zhī běn, the root of the myriad goods. Copybook phrasing, delivered like a schoolmaster.

How is it, then, that you give your person to keep company with a fiend, and think no more upon your father and mother?

The accusation itself. 將身, jiāng shēn, to give over one's own person; 陪伴, péi bàn, to keep company with. He is charging her with forgetting her parents, which is not quite fair, and she knows it is not quite unfair either.

If this be not the crime of unfiliality, what is it?"

非得, fēi dé, "if this be not… then what is it?" — with 得 read dé. The rhetorical question that closes a prosecution.