diff --git a/lib/PhpParser/ParserFactory.php b/lib/PhpParser/ParserFactory.php
index f041e7ffe3..baba23bdb4 100644
--- a/lib/PhpParser/ParserFactory.php
+++ b/lib/PhpParser/ParserFactory.php
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 
 namespace PhpParser;
 
+use PhpParser\Lexer\Emulative;
+use PhpParser\Parser\Php7;
+
 class ParserFactory
 {
     const PREFER_PHP7 = 1;
@@ -41,4 +44,33 @@ public function create(int $kind, Lexer $lexer = null, array $parserOptions = []
                 );
         }
     }
+
+    /**
+     * Create a parser targeting the newest version supported by this library. Code for older
+     * versions will be accepted if there have been no relevant backwards-compatibility breaks in
+     * PHP.
+     *
+     * All supported lexer attributes (comments, startLine, endLine, startTokenPos, endTokenPos,
+     * startFilePos, endFilePos) will be enabled.
+     */
+    public function createForNewestSupportedVersion(): Parser {
+        return new Php7(new Emulative($this->getLexerOptions()));
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Create a parser targeting the host PHP version, that is the PHP version we're currently
+     * running on. This parser will not use any token emulation.
+     *
+     * All supported lexer attributes (comments, startLine, endLine, startTokenPos, endTokenPos,
+     * startFilePos, endFilePos) will be enabled.
+     */
+    public function createForHostVersion(): Parser {
+        return new Php7(new Lexer($this->getLexerOptions()));
+    }
+
+    private function getLexerOptions(): array {
+        return ['usedAttributes' => [
+            'comments', 'startLine', 'endLine', 'startTokenPos', 'endTokenPos', 'startFilePos', 'endFilePos',
+        ]];
+    }
 }
diff --git a/test/PhpParser/ParserFactoryTest.php b/test/PhpParser/ParserFactoryTest.php
index d50981f2a1..fbdc83ae93 100644
--- a/test/PhpParser/ParserFactoryTest.php
+++ b/test/PhpParser/ParserFactoryTest.php
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
 /* This test is very weak, because PHPUnit's assertEquals assertion is way too slow dealing with the
  * large objects involved here. So we just do some basic instanceof tests instead. */
 
+use PhpParser\Node\Stmt\Echo_;
+
 class ParserFactoryTest extends \PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase
 {
     /** @dataProvider provideTestCreate */
@@ -33,4 +35,26 @@ public function provideTestCreate() {
             ]
         ];
     }
+
+    /** @dataProvider provideTestLexerAttributes */
+    public function testLexerAttributes(Parser $parser) {
+        $stmts = $parser->parse("<?php /* Bar */ echo 'Foo';");
+        $stmt = $stmts[0];
+        $this->assertInstanceOf(Echo_::class, $stmt);
+        $this->assertCount(1, $stmt->getComments());
+        $this->assertSame(1, $stmt->getStartLine());
+        $this->assertSame(1, $stmt->getEndLine());
+        $this->assertSame(3, $stmt->getStartTokenPos());
+        $this->assertSame(6, $stmt->getEndTokenPos());
+        $this->assertSame(16, $stmt->getStartFilePos());
+        $this->assertSame(26, $stmt->getEndFilePos());
+    }
+
+    public function provideTestLexerAttributes() {
+        $factory = new ParserFactory();
+        return [
+            [$factory->createForHostVersion()],
+            [$factory->createForNewestSupportedVersion()],
+        ];
+    }
 }