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    |  The dependency visualizer, #[code dep], shows part-of-speech tags
    |  and syntactic dependencies.

+code("Dependency example").
    import spacy
    from spacy import displacy

    nlp = spacy.load('en')
    doc = nlp(u'This is a sentence.')
    displacy.serve(doc, style='dep')

+codepen("f0e85b64d469d6617251d8241716d55f", 370)

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    |  The argument #[code options] lets you specify a dictionary of settings
    |  to customise the layout, for example:

+aside("Important note")
    |  There's currently a known issue with the #[code compact] mode for
    |  sentences with short arrows and long dependency labels, that causes labels
    |  longer than the arrow to wrap. So if you come across this problem,
    |  especially when using custom labels, you'll have to increase the
    |  #[code distance] setting in the #[code options] to allow longer arcs.

+table(["Name", "Type", "Description", "Default"])
    +row
        +cell #[code compact]
        +cell bool
        +cell "Compact mode" with square arrows that takes up less space.
        +cell #[code False]

    +row
        +cell #[code color]
        +cell unicode
        +cell Text color (HEX, RGB or color names).
        +cell #[code '#000000']

    +row
        +cell #[code bg]
        +cell unicode
        +cell Background color (HEX, RGB or color names).
        +cell #[code '#ffffff']

    +row
        +cell #[code font]
        +cell unicode
        +cell Font name or font family for all text.
        +cell #[code 'Arial']

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    |  For a list of all available options, see the
    |  #[+api("top-level#displacy_options") #[code displacy] API documentation].

+aside-code("Options example").
    options = {'compact': True, 'bg': '#09a3d5',
               'color': 'white', 'font': 'Source Sans Pro'}
    displacy.serve(doc, style='dep', options=options)

+codepen("39c02c893a84794353de77a605d817fd", 360)