parser: structural error rendering, source echo, and caret pointer

The old humanise() fell back to chumsky's terse Display for non-
custom errors and appended "(near `X`)", which on top of an
already-cryptic "found 'i' expected ':'" turned the message into
a puzzle. Now humanise() reads the structured RichReason, lists
expected RichPatterns in plain prose, and prefixes the message
with the consumed context.

Before:  parse error: found 'i' expected ':' (near `i`)
After:   parse error: after `change column Rich`, expected `:`,
         found `i`

dispatch_dsl additionally echoes the source line on parse failure
(matching the success path's "running: ...") and prints a `^` caret
under the failure position, so the user can see what got submitted
and where the parser broke without re-reading from scratch.

Known limit: keyword_ci's custom-error mismatches don't aggregate
across choice alternatives, so messages like "expected DATA or
TABLE" (bison-equivalent) aren't yet possible. That's a structural
fix to the keyword matcher, deferred to a future parser-affordances
ADR.

Tests: +2 structural-error regression tests.

src/app.rs

@@ -717,6 +717,22 @@ impl App {
             }
             Err(ParseError::Empty) => Vec::new(),
             Err(err) => {
+                // Echo the source line so the user can see what
+                // got submitted (and copy-paste it back to fix).
+                self.push_output(OutputLine {
+                    text: format!("running: {input}"),
+                    kind: OutputKind::Echo,
+                    mode_at_submission: submission_mode,
+                });
+                // Caret pointer at the failure position, when we
+                // have one. Aligned to the "running: " prefix so
+                // the caret sits under the offending character.
+                if let ParseError::Invalid { position, .. } = &err {
+                    let prefix = "running: ";
+                    let trimmed_offset = leading_trim_offset(input);
+                    let pad = prefix.chars().count() + trimmed_offset + position;
+                    self.note_error(format!("{}^", " ".repeat(pad)));
+                }
                 self.note_error(format!("parse error: {}", parse_error_message(&err)));
                 Vec::new()
             }
@@ -820,6 +836,9 @@ impl App {
         // Wrap the command portion in quotes so the message
         // reads cleanly: "...failed: <reason>" rather than the
         // command running into "failed: ..." with no break.
+        // `note_error` splits on newlines internally — refusal
+        // diagnostics from `change column …` (ADR-0017 §7) flow
+        // through as a multi-line bordered table.
         self.note_error(format!(
             "\"{} {}\" failed: {error}",
             command.verb(),
@@ -1154,6 +1173,7 @@ impl App {
             "  drop column [from] [table] <T>: <col>",
             "  rename column [in] [table] <T>: <old> to <new>",
             "  change column [in] [table] <T>: <col> (<newtype>)",
+            "    [--force-conversion | --dont-convert]",
             "  add 1:n relationship [as <name>] from <P>.<col> to <C>.<col>",
             "    [on delete <action>] [on update <action>] [--create-fk]",
             "  drop relationship <name>",
@@ -1251,6 +1271,14 @@ fn parse_error_message(err: &ParseError) -> String {
     }
 }
 
+/// Number of leading whitespace characters in `s`. The parser
+/// trims its input before parsing, so a position returned by the
+/// parser is relative to the trimmed string. The caret needs the
+/// pre-trim offset to align under the user's literal input.
+fn leading_trim_offset(s: &str) -> usize {
+    s.chars().take_while(|c| c.is_whitespace()).count()
+}
+
 fn render_cascade_effect(effect: &CascadeEffect) -> String {
     use crate::dsl::ReferentialAction;
     let what = match effect.action {

src/dsl/parser.rs

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 //! so callers do not depend on chumsky's API surface — that
 //! keeps the parser swappable if we ever revisit the choice.
 
-use chumsky::error::RichReason;
+use chumsky::error::{RichPattern, RichReason};
 use chumsky::prelude::*;
 
 use crate::dsl::action::ReferentialAction;
@@ -69,21 +69,120 @@ const fn has_custom_reason<T, C>(reason: &RichReason<'_, T, C>) -> bool {
 }
 
 fn humanise(err: &Rich<'_, char>, input: &str) -> String {
-    // For custom errors, the underlying message is what we want
+    // Custom errors carry hand-tuned messages from `try_map`
-    // to show, not chumsky's "found ... expected ..." rendering.
+    // (e.g. "unknown type 'varchar'"); show those verbatim.
     if let Some(msg) = first_custom_message(err.reason()) {
         return msg;
     }
-    let span = err.span();
+    // Otherwise the error is chumsky's structural one: at this
-    let snippet: String = input
+    // position, the parser was looking for one of `expected` and
-        .chars()
+    // found `found` instead. Render that in plain prose rather
-        .skip(span.start)
+    // than falling back to chumsky's terse Display.
-        .take((span.end - span.start).max(1))
+    match err.reason() {
+        RichReason::ExpectedFound { expected, found } => {
+            format_expected_found(expected, found.as_ref(), err.span().start, input)
+        }
+        RichReason::Custom(_) => unreachable!("handled above"),
+    }
+}
+
+fn format_expected_found(
+    expected: &[RichPattern<'_, char>],
+    found: Option<&chumsky::util::MaybeRef<'_, char>>,
+    pos: usize,
+    input: &str,
+) -> String {
+    let found_str = found.map_or_else(|| "end of input".to_string(), |c| describe_char(**c));
+    if expected.is_empty() {
+        return format!("unexpected {found_str}");
+    }
+    // If the expected set contains concrete patterns (named
+    // tokens, identifiers, labels), drop the generic `Any` /
+    // `SomethingElse` wildcards — they're an artefact of our
+    // `any().filter(...)` keyword matchers and add noise rather
+    // than information.
+    let has_concrete = expected.iter().any(|p| {
+        matches!(
+            p,
+            RichPattern::Token(_)
+                | RichPattern::Identifier(_)
+                | RichPattern::Label(_)
+                | RichPattern::EndOfInput
+        )
+    });
+    let mut described: Vec<String> = expected
+        .iter()
+        .filter(|p| {
+            !(has_concrete
+                && matches!(p, RichPattern::Any | RichPattern::SomethingElse))
+        })
+        .map(describe_pattern)
         .collect();
-    if snippet.is_empty() {
+    described.sort();
-        format!("{err}")
+    described.dedup();
+    let expected_str = oxford_or(&described);
+    // Provide a "context" snippet of what successfully parsed
+    // before the failure point, so the user knows where in the
+    // command the error sits without re-reading from scratch.
+    // We trim to a sensible length to avoid wall-of-text errors.
+    let consumed = consumed_context(input, pos);
+    if consumed.is_empty() {
+        format!("expected {expected_str}, found {found_str}")
     } else {
-        format!("{err} (near `{snippet}`)")
+        format!("after `{consumed}`, expected {expected_str}, found {found_str}")
+    }
+}
+
+fn describe_pattern(p: &RichPattern<'_, char>) -> String {
+    match p {
+        RichPattern::Token(c) => format!("`{}`", **c),
+        RichPattern::Identifier(s) => format!("`{s}`"),
+        RichPattern::Label(s) => s.to_string(),
+        RichPattern::Any => "any character".to_string(),
+        RichPattern::SomethingElse => "something else".to_string(),
+        RichPattern::EndOfInput => "end of input".to_string(),
+        // RichPattern is non_exhaustive; cover the catch-all.
+        _ => "<other>".to_string(),
+    }
+}
+
+fn describe_char(c: char) -> String {
+    if c.is_control() {
+        format!("control character (U+{:04X})", c as u32)
+    } else {
+        format!("`{c}`")
+    }
+}
+
+/// English-style "A, B, or C" / "A or B" / "A".
+fn oxford_or(items: &[String]) -> String {
+    match items {
+        [] => String::new(),
+        [a] => a.clone(),
+        [a, b] => format!("{a} or {b}"),
+        rest => {
+            let (last, head) = rest.split_last().expect("len >= 3");
+            format!("{}, or {last}", head.join(", "))
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+/// The substring of `input` from the start up to `pos`, trimmed
+/// of trailing whitespace. Returns at most the last ~40 chars
+/// (with a leading `…`) so a long line still produces a readable
+/// "after `…blah blah`" hint.
+fn consumed_context(input: &str, pos: usize) -> String {
+    let prefix: String = input.chars().take(pos).collect();
+    let trimmed = prefix.trim_end();
+    if trimmed.is_empty() {
+        return String::new();
+    }
+    const MAX: usize = 40;
+    if trimmed.chars().count() <= MAX {
+        trimmed.to_string()
+    } else {
+        let tail: String = trimmed.chars().rev().take(MAX).collect::<Vec<_>>().into_iter().rev().collect();
+        format!("…{tail}")
     }
 }
 
@@ -640,6 +739,8 @@ fn identifier<'a>()
             s
         })
         .padded()
+        .labelled("identifier")
+        .as_context()
 }
 
 /// One of the supported type keywords, mapped to `Type`. The
@@ -704,6 +805,35 @@ mod tests {
         parse_command(input).expect_err("expected parse error")
     }
 
+    fn err_message(input: &str) -> String {
+        match err(input) {
+            ParseError::Invalid { message, .. } => message,
+            ParseError::Empty => panic!("unexpected empty error"),
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn structural_error_for_show_data_without_arg() {
+        // ADR-0017 follow-up: humanise() surfaces chumsky's
+        // structural information instead of the terse "found
+        // end of input expected any" rendering.
+        let msg = err_message("show data");
+        assert!(msg.contains("after `show data`"), "{msg}");
+        assert!(msg.contains("expected identifier"), "{msg}");
+        assert!(msg.contains("found end of input"), "{msg}");
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn structural_error_for_change_column_with_swapped_args() {
+        // User wrote column-name-first; parser accepts that
+        // identifier as the table name and then expects `:`.
+        // The error message names the consumed prefix and the
+        // expected continuation.
+        let msg = err_message("change column Rich in Customers: Rich (text)");
+        assert!(msg.contains("after `change column Rich`"), "{msg}");
+        assert!(msg.contains("expected `:`"), "{msg}");
+    }
+
     fn col(name: &str, ty: Type) -> ColumnSpec {
         ColumnSpec {
             name: name.to_string(),