diff --git a/spacy/analysis.py b/spacy/analysis.py
index c2600048f..41591661c 100644
--- a/spacy/analysis.py
+++ b/spacy/analysis.py
@@ -173,3 +173,24 @@ def print_summary(nlp, pretty=True, no_print=False):
         msg.good("No problems found.")
     if no_print:
         return {"overview": overview, "problems": problems}
+
+
+def count_pipeline_interdependencies(pipeline):
+    """Count how many subsequent components require an annotation set by each
+    component in the pipeline.
+    """
+    pipe_assigns = []
+    pipe_requires = []
+    for name, pipe in pipeline:
+        pipe_assigns.append(set(getattr(pipe, "assigns", [])))
+        pipe_requires.append(set(getattr(pipe, "requires", [])))
+    counts = []
+    for i, assigns in enumerate(pipe_assigns):
+        count = 0
+        for requires in pipe_requires[i+1:]:
+            if assigns.intersection(requires):
+                count += 1
+        counts.append(count)
+    return counts
+
+
diff --git a/spacy/language.py b/spacy/language.py
index afc988583..b228c2155 100644
--- a/spacy/language.py
+++ b/spacy/language.py
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ from .vocab import Vocab
 from .lemmatizer import Lemmatizer
 from .lookups import Lookups
 from .analysis import analyze_pipes, analyze_all_pipes, validate_attrs
+from .analysis import count_pipeline_interdependencies
 from .gold import Example
 from .scorer import Scorer
 from .util import link_vectors_to_models, create_default_optimizer, registry
@@ -545,7 +546,7 @@ class Language(object):
 
         if component_cfg is None:
             component_cfg = {}
-        component_deps = _count_pipeline_inter_dependencies(self.pipeline)
+        component_deps = count_pipeline_interdependencies(self.pipeline)
         # Determine whether component should set annotations. In theory I guess
         # we should do this by inspecting the meta? Or we could just always
         # say "yes"
@@ -1160,25 +1161,6 @@ class DisabledPipes(list):
         self[:] = []
 
 
-def _count_pipeline_inter_dependencies(pipeline):
-    """Count how many subsequent components require an annotation set by each
-    component in the pipeline.
-    """
-    pipe_assigns = []
-    pipe_requires = []
-    for name, pipe in pipeline:
-        pipe_assigns.append(set(getattr(pipe, "assigns", [])))
-        pipe_requires.append(set(getattr(pipe, "requires", [])))
-    counts = []
-    for i, assigns in enumerate(pipe_assigns):
-        count = 0
-        for requires in pipe_requires[i+1:]:
-            if assigns.intersection(requires):
-                count += 1
-        counts.append(count)
-    return counts
-
-
 def _pipe(examples, proc, kwargs):
     # We added some args for pipe that __call__ doesn't expect.
     kwargs = dict(kwargs)
diff --git a/spacy/tests/pipeline/test_analysis.py b/spacy/tests/pipeline/test_analysis.py
index cda39f6ee..e608f2c34 100644
--- a/spacy/tests/pipeline/test_analysis.py
+++ b/spacy/tests/pipeline/test_analysis.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import spacy.language
 from spacy.language import Language, component
 from spacy.analysis import print_summary, validate_attrs
 from spacy.analysis import get_assigns_for_attr, get_requires_for_attr
+from spacy.analysis import count_pipeline_interdependencies
 from mock import Mock, ANY
 import pytest
 
@@ -161,3 +162,19 @@ def test_analysis_validate_attrs_remove_pipe():
     with pytest.warns(None) as record:
         nlp.remove_pipe("c2")
     assert not record.list
+
+
+def test_pipe_interdependencies():
+    class Fancifier:
+        name = "fancifier"
+        assigns = ("doc._.fancy",)
+        requires = tuple()
+    
+    class FancyNeeder:
+        name = "needer"
+        assigns = tuple()
+        requires = ("doc._.fancy",)
+
+    pipeline = [("fancifier", Fancifier()), ("needer", FancyNeeder())]
+    counts = count_pipeline_interdependencies(pipeline)
+    assert counts == [1, 0]
diff --git a/spacy/tests/pipeline/test_pipe_methods.py b/spacy/tests/pipeline/test_pipe_methods.py
index 0397d490d..d42216655 100644
--- a/spacy/tests/pipeline/test_pipe_methods.py
+++ b/spacy/tests/pipeline/test_pipe_methods.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import pytest
-from spacy.language import Language, _count_pipeline_inter_dependencies
+from spacy.language import Language
 
 
 @pytest.fixture
@@ -198,19 +198,3 @@ def test_pipe_labels(nlp):
     assert len(nlp.pipe_labels) == len(input_labels)
     for name, labels in nlp.pipe_labels.items():
         assert sorted(input_labels[name]) == sorted(labels)
-
-
-def test_pipe_inter_dependencies():
-    class Fancifier:
-        name = "fancifier"
-        assigns = ("doc._.fancy",)
-        requires = tuple()
-    
-    class FancyNeeder:
-        name = "needer"
-        assigns = tuple()
-        requires = ("doc._.fancy",)
-
-    pipeline = [("fancifier", Fancifier()), ("needer", FancyNeeder())]
-    counts = _count_pipeline_inter_dependencies(pipeline)
-    assert counts == [1, 0]