Lift Frobenius generator of Galois group $Gal(l/k)$ of an unramified extension $L/K$

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We consider a finite unramified Galois field extension $L/K$ of non-Archimedean local fields with finite residue fields $l / k$. firstly, some notations: denote by $q \in O_K$ a uniformizer of $O_K$ and $\pi \in O_L$ a uniformizer of $O_L$. Then $n= [L:K]=e \cdot f$ with $f= [l:k]$ and $(q)O_L= (\pi)^eO_L$.

The theory tells that $Gal(L/K)=Gal(l/k)$. A proof I found in Fesenko's and Vostokov's 'Local fields and their extensions' works as follows:

  1. We construct a map $Gal(L/K) \to Gal(l/k)$ by $\sigma \mapsto \overline{\sigma}$. is well defined, because $\sigma(O_L)=O_L$ and $\sigma(\pi O_L)=\pi O_L$

  2. prove this map is surjective

  3. use that the extension is unramified: $\vert Gal(L/K)= [L:K]=[l:k]= Gal(l/k)$

Although I understand the proof, one thing I sorely miss: how the lifts of elements of $Gal(l/k)$ explicitly look like?

More precisely, from Galois theory of finite fields we know $Gal(l/k)$ is generated by relative Frobenius $\bar{F}: l \to l, a \mapsto a^d$ with $d = \vert k \vert = p^s $ ($p$ is the characteristic of $k$). As $Gal(L/K)=Gal(l/k)$, the unique preimage ("lift") $F: L \to L$ of the relative Frobenius $\bar{F}$ generates $Gal(L/K)$.

Question: Is there any way to describe explicitly how the lift $F$ looks like, ie how it acts on elements of $L$? Can we find any canonical generators of $L$ on which the action of $F$ can be described? Or is this lift only an "abstract" construction without any explicite description?

My idea was - since $l = k(\zeta)$ for a appropriate root of unity $\zeta$ - to lift this root with Hensel's lemma. but I not see any reason why this lift of the root generates $L$ as $K$-algebra .