Couldn't parse even with backoff parser!

[asterbini]

Hi, I am trying retrieving the entities in Austen's Pride and Prejudice and I get the error: Couldn't parse even with backoff parser! on a sentence in Chapter 6:

"No, indeed. I do not wish to avoid the walk. The distance is nothing, when one has a motive; only three miles. I shall be back by dinner."

The error instead does NOT happen if the sentence is unquoted:

No, indeed. I do not wish to avoid the walk. The distance is nothing, when one has a motive; only three miles. I shall be back by dinner.

What could be the problem? How could I fix it?

[asterbini]

For the moment I have solved by replacing all double quote (") with backquote (`)

[gregdurrett]

This is probably because the "input sentence" is actually several sentences. It needs to be split further for the parser to do the right thing.

BTW I don't really maintain this tool anymore, I'm glad you find it useful but AllenNLP is a more up-to-date and better supported framework.

[asterbini]

Thanks for your kind and rapid answer I'll try AllenNLP Andrea

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On 8/27/19 5:57 PM, Greg Durrett wrote: This is probably because the "input sentence" is actually several sentences. It needs to be split further for the parser to do the right thing. BTW I don't really maintain this tool anymore, I'm glad you find it useful but AllenNLP is a more up-to-date and better supported framework. — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#16?email_source=notifications&email_token=AAZZ6MJA4JYDH2GOQLXOQB3QGVFHDA5CNFSM4IPQ3LNKYY3PNVWWK3TUL52HS4DFVREXG43VMVBW63LNMVXHJKTDN5WW2ZLOORPWSZGOD5IHPHQ#issuecomment-525367198>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAZZ6MJLSSJVMFGSKPIUBKTQGVFHDANCNFSM4IPQ3LNA>.