diff --git a/spacy/pipeline.pyx b/spacy/pipeline.pyx
index 6f949a5b9..7eb75953a 100644
--- a/spacy/pipeline.pyx
+++ b/spacy/pipeline.pyx
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ from .syntax.stateclass cimport StateClass
 from .gold cimport GoldParse
 from .morphology cimport Morphology
 from .vocab cimport Vocab
-from .syntax.nonproj import PseudoProjectivity
+from .syntax import nonproj
 
 from .attrs import ID, LOWER, PREFIX, SUFFIX, SHAPE, TAG, DEP, POS
 from ._ml import rebatch, Tok2Vec, flatten, get_col, doc2feats
@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ class NeuralLabeller(NeuralTagger):
         pass
 
     def begin_training(self, gold_tuples, pipeline=None):
-        gold_tuples = PseudoProjectivity.preprocess_training_data(gold_tuples)
+        gold_tuples = nonproj.preprocess_training_data(gold_tuples)
         for raw_text, annots_brackets in gold_tuples:
             for annots, brackets in annots_brackets:
                 ids, words, tags, heads, deps, ents = annots
diff --git a/spacy/syntax/parser.pyx b/spacy/syntax/parser.pyx
index b9de1e114..78698db12 100644
--- a/spacy/syntax/parser.pyx
+++ b/spacy/syntax/parser.pyx
@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@ from ._parse_features cimport CONTEXT_SIZE
 from ._parse_features cimport fill_context
 from .stateclass cimport StateClass
 from ._state cimport StateC
-from .nonproj import PseudoProjectivity
 from .transition_system import OracleError
 from .transition_system cimport TransitionSystem, Transition
 from ..structs cimport TokenC