The main result of this article is that any braided (resp. annular, planar) diagram group D splits as a short exact sequence 1 → R → D → S → 1 where R is a subgroup of some right-angled Artin group and S a subgroup of Thompson's group V (resp. T , F ). As an application, we show that several braided diagram groups embeds into Thompson's group V , including Higman's groups Vn,r, groups of quasi-automorphisms QVn,r,p, and generalised Houghton's groups Hn,p. arXiv:1709.03888v2 [math.GR]