Add lookup properties for components in Language

spacy/language.py

@@ -184,6 +184,35 @@ class Language(object):
                 flat_list.append(pipe)
         self.pipeline = flat_list
 
+    # Conveniences to access pipeline components
+    @property
+    def tensorizer(self):
+        return self.get_component('tensorizer')
+
+    @property
+    def tagger(self):
+        return self.get_component('tagger')
+
+    @property
+    def parser(self):
+        return self.get_component('parser')
+
+    @property
+    def entity(self):
+        return self.get_component('ner')
+
+    @property
+    def matcher(self):
+        return self.get_component('matcher')
+
+    def get_component(self, name): 
+        if self.pipeline in (True, None):
+            return None
+        for proc in self.pipeline:
+            if hasattr(proc, 'name') and proc.name.endswith(name):
+                return proc
+        return None
+
     def __call__(self, text, disable=[]):
         """'Apply the pipeline to some text. The text can span multiple sentences,
         and can contain arbtrary whitespace. Alignment into the original string