def flatten_deeptree(tree):
	return Tree(node_label(tree), flatten_childtrees([c for c in tree]))
>>> flatten_deeptree(Tree('S', [Tree('NP-SBJ', [Tree('NP', [Tree('NNP', ['Pierre']), Tree('NNP', ['Vinken'])]), Tree(',', [',']), Tree('ADJP', [Tree('NP', [Tree('CD', ['61']), Tree('NNS', ['years'])]), Tree('JJ', ['old'])]), Tree(',', [','])]), Tree('VP', [Tree('MD', ['will']), Tree('VP', [Tree('VB', ['join']), Tree('NP', [Tree('DT', ['the']), Tree('NN', ['board'])]), Tree('PP-CLR', [Tree('IN', ['as']), Tree('NP', [Tree('DT', ['a']), Tree('JJ', ['nonexecutive']), Tree('NN', ['director'])])]), Tree('NP-TMP', [Tree('NNP', ['Nov.']), Tree('CD', ['29'])])])]), Tree('.', ['.'])]))
dataset/ETHPy150Open japerk/nltk-trainer/nltk_trainer/chunking/transforms.py/flatten_deeptree