diff --git a/spacy/language.py b/spacy/language.py
index b839be1f6..f87cb4e31 100644
--- a/spacy/language.py
+++ b/spacy/language.py
@@ -633,7 +633,7 @@ class Language(object):
             kwargs = component_cfg.get(name, {})
             kwargs.setdefault("batch_size", batch_size)
             if not hasattr(pipe, "pipe"):
-                docs = (pipe(doc, **kwargs) for doc in docs)
+                docs = _pipe(pipe, docs, kwargs)
             else:
                 docs = pipe.pipe(docs, **kwargs)
         for doc, gold in zip(docs, golds):