diff --git a/spacy/pipeline.pxd b/spacy/pipeline.pxd
index 37b83fe47..2ade6a0c4 100644
--- a/spacy/pipeline.pxd
+++ b/spacy/pipeline.pxd
@@ -9,5 +9,5 @@ cdef class EntityRecognizer(BeamParser):
     pass
 
 
-cdef class DependencyParser(BeamParser):
+cdef class DependencyParser(Parser):
     pass
diff --git a/spacy/pipeline.pyx b/spacy/pipeline.pyx
index 46d298d81..5e77013f4 100644
--- a/spacy/pipeline.pyx
+++ b/spacy/pipeline.pyx
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ cdef class EntityRecognizer(BeamParser):
         self.vocab._serializer = None
 
 
-cdef class DependencyParser(BeamParser):
+cdef class DependencyParser(Parser):
     TransitionSystem = ArcEager
 
     feature_templates = get_feature_templates('basic')