diff --git a/spacy/tokens/token.pxd b/spacy/tokens/token.pxd
index 5f32f176b..f63a0490c 100644
--- a/spacy/tokens/token.pxd
+++ b/spacy/tokens/token.pxd
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ from ..vocab cimport Vocab
 from ..structs cimport TokenC
 from ..attrs cimport *
 from ..typedefs cimport attr_t, flags_t
+from ..parts_of_speech cimport univ_pos_t
 from .doc cimport Doc
 from ..lexeme cimport Lexeme
 
@@ -52,3 +53,23 @@ cdef class Token:
             return token.ent_type
         else:
             return Lexeme.get_struct_attr(token.lex, feat_name)
+
+    @staticmethod
+    cdef inline attr_t set_struct_attr(TokenC* token, attr_id_t feat_name,
+                                       attr_t value) nogil:
+        if feat_name == LEMMA:
+            token.lemma = value
+        elif feat_name == POS:
+            token.pos = <univ_pos_t>value
+        elif feat_name == TAG:
+            token.tag = value
+        elif feat_name == DEP:
+            token.dep = value
+        elif feat_name == HEAD:
+            token.head = value
+        elif feat_name == SPACY:
+            token.spacy = value
+        elif feat_name == ENT_IOB:
+            token.ent_iob = value
+        elif feat_name == ENT_TYPE:
+            token.ent_type = value