diff --git a/spacy/pipeline/transition_parser.pyx b/spacy/pipeline/transition_parser.pyx
index 6ae520d6d..e6a2bfcf0 100644
--- a/spacy/pipeline/transition_parser.pyx
+++ b/spacy/pipeline/transition_parser.pyx
@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ import random
 
 import srsly
 from thinc.api import get_ops, set_dropout_rate, CupyOps, NumpyOps, Optimizer
-from thinc.api import LegacySequenceCategoricalCrossentropy, chain, softmax_activation, use_ops
+from thinc.api import chain, softmax_activation, use_ops
+from thinc.legacy import LegacySequenceCategoricalCrossentropy
 from thinc.types import Floats2d
 import numpy.random
 import numpy