# Enable spacy dependency parser

**URL:** https://forum.rasa.com/t/enable-spacy-dependency-parser/14610
**Category:** Rasa Open Source
**Created:** [August 21, 2019, 9:38am UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/enable-spacy-dependency-parser/14610 "2019-08-21T09:38:56Z")
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### Author: ![neelkes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/74df32/32.png) [@neelkes](https://forum.rasa.com/u/neelkes)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2019, 9:38am UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/enable-spacy-dependency-parser/14610/1 "2019-08-21T09:38:56Z")

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Hi, is there a way to enable the spacy dependency parser (code in **spacy\_utils.py** ) to be able to use the noun\_chunks functionality? how would one do that apart from downloading and modifying the source code? thanks