diff --git a/spacy/syntax/nn_parser.pyx b/spacy/syntax/nn_parser.pyx
index a0accf3ac..21ee603a3 100644
--- a/spacy/syntax/nn_parser.pyx
+++ b/spacy/syntax/nn_parser.pyx
@@ -85,6 +85,8 @@ cdef class Parser:
         }
         return ParserModel(tok2vec, lower, upper), cfg
 
+    name = 'base_parser'
+
     def __init__(self, Vocab vocab, moves=True, model=True, **cfg):
         """Create a Parser.