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**Edit: added previous context**

Maruko has just asked grandad if he would save her from a wild dog. Grandad is
scared but doesn't want to say 'no' to Maruko.

I thought my problem was only with the last sentence, but now I'm confused
about who said the penultimate sentence too.

> 「まる子、おじいちゃんを混乱させるのはおよしなさい」  
>  Mum: Maruko, please stop confusing grandad  
>  「でもおじいちゃんの意見をききたいんだもん」  
>  Maruko: But I want to hear grandad's opinions  
>  見ると、友蔵(grandad)は「わしは...わしは...」とうなだれた姿で、さらに深みに入りこんでいた。  
>  Narrator: When she saw the figure of grandad hanging his head and saying
> "I..I..." she probed more deeply. ( **who is she?** )  
>  「こらっ、もういいの。おじいちゃん、もう考え込まないでくださいよ」  
>  ??: Hey! Enough of this! Think harder.  
>  質問をしただけなのに、おかあさんに「こらっ」 **なんて** 怒られる筋合いはないとまる子が思った瞬間、おばあさんがとりなすように言った。  
>  Narrator: Even though it was just a question, the moment Maruko thought
> that there was no reason to get scolded by mum for saying a thing like こらっ,
> grandma intervened.

This is my translation attempt. I have two problems:

1) The なんて particle seems to cover a multitude of confusion here. For starters
I guess it's replacing the quote particle と and there's an implied 言う. But
secondly, it must be replacing something that gives the meaning of 'for'. I
can't fill in the blanks here because I don't know how to say 'get scolded
**for** a given reason'.

2) It isn't logically consistent. If Maruko didn't see a reason to be scolded
why did grandma need to intervene?
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How to express the reason for scolding someone
You're confused as to who says 「こら」. It's not Maruko, but it's her mother.
Besides, こら is not a word that a little girl (that Maruko is) would say (at
least in the presence of her parents.)

Maruko asks a question, and her mother responds with こらっ and nothing else and
then we're at the current sentence.

> 質問をしただけなのに、

"I only asked a question"

> おかあさんに「こらっ」なんて怒られる

"Yet mother became angry at me, saying こらっ"

> 筋合いはない

"She had no right to do that"

> とまる子が思った

"or so Maruko thought"

> 瞬間、

"at the moment Maruko thought so"

> おばあさんがとりなすように言った。

"Grandma intervened thus"

なんて is a particle expressing Maruko's disbelief, that she got shouted at even
though she only asked a question. It replaces と but I don't think there's
anything left unsaid. The mother shouted at Maruko but neglected to give a
reason Maruko could understand. Grandma, however, is irritated by the mother's
こら and is intervening.

> _" I only asked a question, yet I got scolded for no reason I can see." The
> moment Maruko finished her thought, Grandma intervened_ (by saying something
> you aren't showing us.)

* * *

I must say that I don't quite understand the context so I'm a bit out on a
limb here (so someone correct me if I'm wrong), but your translation of the
previous sentences has a few issues too.

> 見ると、友蔵(grandad)は「わしは...わしは...」とうなだれた姿で、さらに深みに入りこんでいた。
>
> Narrator: When she saw the figure of grandad hanging his head and saying
> "I..I..." she probed more deeply. (who is she?)

_" Who is she?"_ Well, it's granddad that's the subject of the second half of
the sentence.

"When she (Maruko) looked at granddad again, he was hanging his head and was
going deeper in (into paralysis/thought)"

> 「こらっ、もういいの。おじいちゃん、もう考え込まないでくださいよ」
>
> ??: Hey! Enough of this! Think harder.

Mother (to Maruko): "Hey, enough of this!"

Mother (to Granddad): "Snap out of it (stop thinking)!"
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