diff --git a/spacy/gold.pyx b/spacy/gold.pyx
index de48501fb..16b4ce2bb 100644
--- a/spacy/gold.pyx
+++ b/spacy/gold.pyx
@@ -194,8 +194,9 @@ class GoldCorpus(object):
 
     def count_train(self):
         n = 0
+        for raw_text, paragraph_tuples in self.train_tuples:
         for _ in self.train_tuples:
-            n += 1
+            n += len(paragraph_tuples)
         return n
 
     def train_docs(self, nlp, gold_preproc=False,