Event propagation in Qt

Question

I've just the documentation on the Qt event system and the QEvent class. I'm interested in the behavior of the QObject::event() method. The documentation states:

This virtual function receives events to an object and should return true if the event e was recognized and processed.

What is the expected behavior when false is returned from the event() method? What else is attempted in order to handle the event? Is the event automatically forwarded to the parent object?

Note: I know the source is available, and I do have a copy. I'm ideally looking for some piece of documentation addressing this behavior.