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+from spacy.tokens import Doc, Token
+
+
+class Visualizer:
+    @staticmethod
+    def render_dependency_trees(doc: Doc) -> list[str]:
+        """
+        Returns an ASCII rendering of the document with a dependency tree for each sentence. The
+        dependency tree output for a given token has the same index within the output list of
+        strings as that token within the input document.
+
+        Adapted from https://github.com/KoichiYasuoka/deplacy
+        """
+        heads = [
+            -1
+            if token.dep_.lower() == "root" or token.head.i == token.i
+            else token.head.i
+            for token in doc
+        ]
+        children_lists = [[] for _ in range(len(doc))]
+        for child, head in enumerate(h for h in heads):
+            if head != -1:
+                children_lists[head].append(child)
+        all_indices_ordered_by_column = []
+        indices_in_current_column = [i for i, h in enumerate(heads) if h == -1]
+        while len(indices_in_current_column) > 0:
+            all_indices_ordered_by_column.extend(indices_in_current_column)
+            indices_in_current_column = [
+                i
+                for index_in_current_column in indices_in_current_column
+                for i in children_lists[index_in_current_column]
+                if i not in all_indices_ordered_by_column
+            ]
+        all_indices_ordered_by_column = reversed(all_indices_ordered_by_column)
+        # -1: no arrow; None: not yet set
+        horizontal_arrow_positions = [
+            -1
+            if heads[i] == -1
+            else 0
+            if len(children_lists[i]) == 0 and abs(heads[i] - i) == 1
+            else None
+            for i in range(len(doc))
+        ]
+        while None in horizontal_arrow_positions:
+            for working_token_index in (
+                i
+                for i in all_indices_ordered_by_column
+                if horizontal_arrow_positions[i] is None
+            ):
+                first_index_in_relation = min(
+                    working_token_index,
+                    heads[working_token_index],
+                )
+                second_index_in_relation = max(
+                    working_token_index,
+                    heads[working_token_index],
+                )
+                inbetween_indexes = range(
+                    first_index_in_relation + 1, second_index_in_relation
+                )
+                inbetween_horizontal_arrow_positions = horizontal_arrow_positions[
+                    first_index_in_relation + 1 : second_index_in_relation
+                ]
+                if (
+                    -1 in inbetween_horizontal_arrow_positions
+                    and None in inbetween_horizontal_arrow_positions
+                ):
+                    continue
+                if None in (
+                    horizontal_arrow_positions[i]
+                    for i in children_lists[working_token_index]
+                ):
+                    continue
+                if len(children_lists[working_token_index]) > 0:
+                    working_horizontal_arrow_position = (
+                        max(
+                            [
+                                horizontal_arrow_positions[i]
+                                for i in children_lists[working_token_index]
+                            ]
+                        )
+                        + 1
+                    )
+                else:
+                    working_horizontal_arrow_position = -1
+                for inbetween_index in (
+                    i
+                    for i in inbetween_indexes
+                    if i not in children_lists[working_token_index]
+                    and horizontal_arrow_positions[i] is not None
+                ):
+                    working_horizontal_arrow_position = max(
+                        working_horizontal_arrow_position,
+                        horizontal_arrow_positions[inbetween_index]
+                        if inbetween_index in children_lists[heads[working_token_index]]
+                        else horizontal_arrow_positions[inbetween_index] + 1,
+                    )
+                    for child_horizontal_arrow_position in (
+                        horizontal_arrow_positions[i]
+                        for i in children_lists[working_token_index]
+                        if (i < first_index_in_relation or i > second_index_in_relation)
+                        and horizontal_arrow_positions[i] is not None
+                    ):
+                        working_horizontal_arrow_position = max(
+                            working_horizontal_arrow_position,
+                            child_horizontal_arrow_position + 1,
+                        )
+                if working_horizontal_arrow_position > -1:
+                    horizontal_arrow_positions[
+                        working_token_index
+                    ] = working_horizontal_arrow_position
+        print(horizontal_arrow_positions)
+
+
+import spacy
+
+nlp = spacy.load("en_core_web_sm")
+doc = nlp("I saw a horse yesterday that was injured.")
+Visualizer().render_dependency_trees(doc)